Eerdmans Academic Catalog Fall/Winter 2018–19

academ ic catalog Fall–Winter 2018–19

Contents 1 New & Notable 2 Theology 8 Biography 12 Religious History 16 Biblical Studies 20 New Testament 24 Commentaries 31 Textbooks 34 Christian Ministry 38 Christian Practice 41 New & Notable 45 Index

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“When the foundations are thrown down,” asked the psalmist, “what can the righteous person do?” (Psalm 11:3). This question resonates for many in our own setting, when the props and stays of the old normal in so many areas—political, social, ecclesial, environmental—seem to be under assault and crumbling. Voltaire’s Candide rejected explanations that all the ills are for the best, urging instead, “We must cultivate our garden.” Social philosopher René Girard gently pressed a finer point when he told theologians who asked how we can respond to our apocalyptic times, “We might begin with personal sanctity.”

Such self-cultivation in a Christian mode is not solipsistic or even self-centered. As it looks inward, it also looks back to history, scripture, tradition; it looks forward to a reimagined future; finally, perhaps, after all due contemplation, it turns a critical eye and a prophetic voice on the surrounding culture. Thus it follows the psalmist (see 11:4) in bringing the chaotic or tragic or carnivalesque present, and our own anxious reactions to it, under the adjudicating gaze of one who is enthroned far above. And then it teaches and exhorts to stimulate reimagining and re-creating action.

When the world is a mess, what can a religious publishing house do?

All we can ever do is try to discern the needs of our readers, find the best authors to address those needs, and publish another book. So in this catalog, in partnership with our authors, we offer resources for readers who wish to disengage from the here and now to look backward, forward, inward, and upward for a realignment that will enable them to reengage critically, constructively, and redemptively. We offer seeds and fertilizer for those who want to plant, water, and tend their minds in ways that may bear wholesome, even holy, fruit.

I was going to illustrate by pointing selectively to particular new titles that accomplish these things in the various areas in which we publish: biblical studies, systematic and historical theology, history and biography, practical theology, Christian living. At first it was fun, but then it began to become frustrating: I was finding too many good examples to fit into the available space! But frustration finally gave way to gratitude as I realized that, once again, while we were not looking, or were looking too desperately, the miracle had happened: after months of often exhausting effort and many moments of near-despair, what a joyful thing it is to see our wonderful authors’ work come to fruition in the gems that adorn every page of this catalog. It is our hope and prayer that these offerings will help you, our much-appreciated readers, to find timely and fruitful ways of cultivating your own gardens.

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Burying White Privilege

A challenging, prophetic word for the church today

Resurrecting a Badass Christianity Miguel A. De La Torre

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Short. Timely. Poignant. Pointed. Burying White Privilege is all of these and more. This is the book that everybody who cares about contemporary American Christianity will want to read.

Many people wonder how white Christians could not only support Donald Trump for president but also rush to defend an accused child molester running for the US Senate. In a 2017 essay that went viral, Miguel A. De La Torre boldly proclaimed the death of Christianity at the hands of white evangelical nationalists. He continues sounding the death knell in this book.

In Burying White Privilege De La Torre argues that centuries of oppression and greed have effectively ruined evangelical Christianity in the United States. Believers and clerical leaders have killed it, choosing profits over prophets. The silence concerning—if not the doctrinal justification of—racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia has made white Christianity satanic, responsible for destruction and death among marginalized global and domestic communities. Prophetically calling Christian nationalists to repentance, De La Torre seeks to rescue the biblical Christ from the distorted Christ of white Christian imagination.

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Chapter Titles 1: Let the Dead Bury the Dead 2: The Fallacy of Whiteness 3: Maintaining and Sustaining Self-Deception 4: Badass Christianity Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latinx Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. A modern Amos-like prophet who speaks a clarion message against myopic American Christianity, he has published over thirty books, including Liberation Theology for Armchair Theologians and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins.

978-0-8028-7688-1 / hardcover / 160 pages / $22.00 [£17.00] / December

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Advent

The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ Fleming Rutledge

T H E O L O G Y

Advent, says Fleming Rutledge, is not for the faint of heart. As the midnight of the Christian year, the season of Advent is rife with dark, gritty realities. In this book, with her trademark wit and wisdom, Rutledge explores Advent as a time of rich paradoxes, a season celebrating at once Christ’s incarnation and his second coming. Rutledge’s Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ masterfully unfolds the ethical and eschatological significance of this special season for the church.

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“Fleming Rutledge’s Advent preaching bursts upon us with the same elemental force as the preaching of John the Baptist. This is essential preaching for a church wallowing in self-referential sentimentality and caught in captivity to the compromises of the present political order. This is preaching that tells the truth about the world’s suffering and proclaims that God acts to rescue us. Do not drift anesthetized through another season of Advent; read this book.”

— Richard B. Hays Duke University

“When it comes to preparing a congregation to observe the Christian season of Advent, no one should enter a pulpit, prepare worship, or teach a class without first reading this book. Biblically grounded, theologically centered, homiletically effective, and spiritually uplifting, this collection of writings and sermons by one of the church’s great preachers is a winner on every front.” — Eugene Taylor Sutton Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland

“Rutledge’s wonderful sermons on Advent are more than individual gems (though they are that): collectively they provide a rich and full exploration of the season in all its manifold moods and themes.”

— Alan Jacobs Baylor University

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“With her trademark eloquence and theological rigor, Rutledge reflects on the liturgical season of Advent, challenging the conventional interpretation of Advent as preparation for Christmas.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Replete with rich, mature, vigorous theological reflections on Advent, this book is invigorating—edgy, intelligent, unflinching, and joyful in all it reclaims.

A timely, lively prophetic word.”

— Marilyn McEntyre author of What’s in a Phrase?

“Many of us in the American church are addicted to preaching that makes us, the hearers, into the heroes. . . . Reading this book liberates us to enjoy a new theological sobriety.”

— Wesley Hill Trinity School for Ministry

Fleming Rutledge is an Episcopal priest, a best-selling author, and an acclaimed preacher. Her last book, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ, won Christianity Today’s 2017 Book of the Year Award.

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Other fine books from the pen of Fleming Rutledge

Sermons for Good Friday On Good Friday, March 30, 2018, Fleming Rutledge preached on the Seven Last Words of Jesus at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City. Her seven meditations, delivered over the course of three hours, were met with rave reviews. Printed in full in this volume, these sermons display Rutledge’s usual combination of resolute orthodoxy and pastoral wisdom—at once traditional and fresh.

Fleming Rutledge is an Episcopal priest widely recognized in North America and the UK as a preacher, lecturer, and teacher of other preachers. Her published sermon collections have received acclaim across denominational lines.

978-0-8028-7719-2 / hardcover / 96 pages $18.00 [£14.00] / January

T H E O L O G Y

Three Hours

“Few people can match Fleming Rutledge in her masterful unfolding of the world-shattering consequences of Christ’s death on the cross. These sermons on Christ’s final words are the work of a Spirit-filled preacher who has spent years deeply contemplating the mystery of our redemption. They were spectacular to hear, and their publication is a gift to the church universal and a cause for celebration.”

— Joel C. Daniels St. Thomas Church, New York

The Crucifixion Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ Winner of the Christianity Today 2017 Book of the Year Award Academy of Parish Clergy 2015 Reference Book of the Year “The Crucifixion by Fleming Rutledge is one of the most stimulating and thought-provoking books of theology that I have read in the past ten years. . . .

Rutledge has an extraordinary knack of cutting to the heart of the matter. Her book on the central reality of the Christian faith is supremely illuminating, a delight for the inquiring mind — and man, will it ever preach.”

— Robert Barron on Word on Fire “This is pure gold.”

— Peter Forster in Church Times “Rutledge helps those who preach and those who listen not only to understand the meaning and significance of the crucifixion, but also to stand under it in awe and devotion.”

“Monumental. . . . Take up and read! Rutledge’s volume wonderfully celebrates the triumph of redeeming grace: the crucified Messiah, Jesus who is the wisdom and power of God.” — Robert P. Imbelli in Commonweal “This is a work of a lifetime that could only be written by someone who has lived a life determined by the cross.”

— Stanley Hauerwas

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Systematic Theology

God’s Two Words

Full Darkness

COM PL ETE E D I T I O N

Law and Gospel in the Lutheran and Reformed Traditions

Original Sin, Moral Injury, and Wartime Violence

Foreword by Richard A. Muller

Jonathan A. Linebaugh, editor

Brian S. Powers

This complete edition of Reformed theologian Louis Berkhof’s magnum opus includes the full text of both his Introductory Volume to Systematic Theology and his classic Systematic Theology. Berkhof covers the whole range of theology in traditional systematic fashion, comprehensively examining these doctrines:

“Five Reformed and five Lutheran voices here join in dialogue over the proper distinction of law and gospel, addressing dogmatic, hermeneutical, and pastoral aspects of the ways in which their respective traditions have employed the distinction. Deconstructing misimpressions and presenting common perspectives and divergent definitions and uses of both law and gospel, these essays invite readers into their exchange of ideas with an eye toward proclamation and application of the biblical message in the twenty-first century. A most helpful volume!”

Louis Berkhof

• The Being and Works of God • Man in Relation to God • The Person and Work of Christ

• The Application of the Work of Redemption • The Church and the Means of Grace • The Last Things The foreword by Richard A. Muller explains the relation and importance of Berkhof’s prolegomena to the rest of his systematic theology. Thorough bibliographies, questions for further study, and complete indexes make this work ideal for students. Ever since its original publication in the 1930s, Berkhof’s Systematic Theology has been the most significant compendium of Reformed theological thought, and it will remain so for years to come.

Louis Berkhof (1873–1957) taught biblical studies and theology at Calvin Theological Seminary for thirty-eight years. Among his other widely influential books are The History of Christian Doctrines, Manual of Christian Doctrine, and Summary of Christian Doctrine.

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— Robert Kolb Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis

“According to Calvin’s successor, Theodore Beza, ‘confusion of the Law and the Gospel is the primary source’ of the problems in the history of the church.

But do Lutheran and Reformed traditions understand this distinction exactly the same way? Each essay in this book is a gem, displaying differences within the two traditions as well as between them. May this conversation continue!”

— Michael Horton

In Full Darkness theologian and wartime veteran Brian Powers argues that the Augustinian concept of original sin can illuminate the nature of wartime violence, particularly through the lens of veteran trauma. He shows precisely how sin and war both cause human identity, agency, and hope to be lost.

Ideal for veterans, chaplains, and pastors, Full Darkness offers a new perspective on the cultural understanding of military violence, provides theological help for those drowning in guilt and shame, and paves the way for reclaiming positive human agency and identity.

“From his personal experience with the dehumanizing violence of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Brian Powers offers a bracing defense of the Augustinian doctrine of original sin as uniquely able to describe the real distorting effects of war on the human psyche.”

— Martha Moore-Keish Columbia Theological Seminary

Westminster Seminary California

Contributors Michael Allen, Charles P. Arand, Erik H. Herrmann, Kelly M. Kapic, Jonathan A. Linebaugh, Piotr J. Małysz, Mark C. Mattes, Steven Paulson, Katherine Sonderegger, Scott R. Swain, Kevin J. Vanhoozer.

Jonathan A. Linebaugh is lecturer in New Testament at the University of Cambridge and fellow at Jesus College.

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“It is rare indeed to find a theological work that so powerfully combines analytical rigor with pastoral depth as this volume does.”

— Ian A. McFarland University of Cambridge

Brian S. Powers (PhD, Emory University) is the inaugural Bernard William Vann Fellow for the Study of Christianity and the Military at Durham University in the UK.

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Grounded in Heaven

Guides to Theology

The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition

Recentering Christian Hope and Life on God

Eschatology

Hans Boersma

John C. McDowell and Scott A. Kirkland

Michael Allen

Foreword by Andrew Louth “Hans Boersma’s Seeing God is the most significant and theologically comprehensive treatment of this topic in English since Kenneth Kirk’s classic The Vision of God. And, far more than Kirk, Boersma provides the invaluable service of breaking down the barriers (mostly barriers of misconception) separating differing Christian traditions, East and West, Orthodox and Catholic and Protestant. This is theological reflection of the most illuminating kind.”

— David Bentley Hart author of Atheist Delusions and The Beauty of the Infinite

“Building on his exemplary ‘sacramental ontology,’ Hans Boersma here offers us a ‘sacramental teleology’ in which the end of humanity—the visio Dei—is revealed sacramentally within the created order.

A profound and important work.” — Simon Oliver Durham University

“Only Hans Boersma could write this book. With a superb command of the Scriptures and of the Reformed, Protestant, and Catholic traditions, he revisits the neglected topic of beatific vision and reminds us what it is to see God in Christ. An energizing book from one of today’s best theologians.”

— Janet Soskice University of Cambridge

“A striking manifesto, in the form of a gentle, subtle, moving, and encyclopedic tour through the church’s long reflection on our final destiny of gazing upon God’s face given in Christ.” — Ephraim Radner Wycliffe College

Hans Boersma holds the J. I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. His other books include Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church and Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry.

Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in Heaven Allen counters the earthly-mindedness of much contemporary theology. Reaching back to classical ethics as well as its reformation by Calvin and other Reformed theologians, Allen’s Grounded in Heaven offers a distinctly Protestant account of the ascetical calling to both heavenlymindedness and self-denial.

“With his characteristic clarity and verve, Michael Allen presents an alternative to the recent evangelical trend of thinning down heaven to human—all too human—proportions. This lively book is a conversationchanger!”

— J. Todd Billings Western Theological Seminary

“Allen’s call to heavenly-mindedness on earth is a provocative corrective to the contemporary emphasis on earth-bound conceptions of heaven.”

— Kevin J. Vanhoozer Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

“Ecumenical readers will find this book to be, at its core, an exercise in sound biblical and Augustinian good sense.”

— Matthew Levering Mundelein Seminary

Michael Allen is the John Dyer Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He has written many books and is coeditor (with Scott R. Swain) of the Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology.

978-0-8028-7453-5 / paperback / 144 pages $18.00 [£14.00] / October

T H E O L O G Y

Seeing God

This short theology textbook surveys key themes and aspects of Christian hope by tracing eschatological ideas as they have developed from Scripture throughout the history of theology. John McDowell and Scott Kirkland structure their work thematically into five chapters—four exploring apocalyptic, existential, political, and christological themes, followed by an extensive annotated bibliography.

“John McDowell and Scott Kirkland take the confusing area of eschatology and make it accessible and comprehensible to readers wanting an orientation to the subject. This is a great theological introduction to what is for many a bizarre topic of theology.”

— Michael F. Bird Ridley College, Melbourne

“Although basic theological literacy requires a grasp of terms like ‘eschatological’ and ‘apocalyptic,’ the resources for people seeking orientation on these topics are surprisingly thin. McDowell and Kirkland’s Eschatology is therefore an extremely welcome contribution. It is engagingly written and touches on a wide range of thinkers and movements. I especially like the annotated bibliography.”

— Joseph L. Mangina Wycliffe College, Toronto

John C. McDowell is professor of theology and director of research at the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia.

Scott A. Kirkland is a postdoctoral associate at Trinity College Theological School, University of Divinity, Melbourne.

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Interventions Conor Cunningham, series editor

Charred Root of Meaning

Continuity, Transgression, and the Other in Christian Tradition Philipp W. Rosemann Foreword by John Milbank

T H E O L O G Y

Ecologists tell us that periodic wildfires, though devastating, are necessary to the rhythm of nature. The death of the old allows something new to grow, sometimes straight back from the charred roots. Christian tradition functions much the same way, says Philipp Rosemann. In this book he examines how transgression and destruction are crucial in the foundation and preservation of tradition.

Theories of tradition have emphasized the handing-down of identity rather than continuity through difference. Rosemann shows that divine revelation occurs as an irruption that challenges the existing order.

The preservation of tradition, he argues, requires that this challenge be periodically repeated. Offering a historical, theological, and philosophical approach to Christian tradition, Charred Root of Meaning shows how transgression and reformation keep the Christian faith alive.

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“ ‘Transgression’ is constitutive of the Christian tradition, Philipp Rosemann argues, yet transgression is nothing without the tradition whose roots it seeks to lay bare. From close reading of Scripture to unpacking an anonymous early gloss on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, from Denys the Carthusian’s mystical reading of his scholastic forbears to Luther’s influence on Heidegger, from Dionysius the Areopagite to Foucault and Derrida, Rosemann crosses conventional academic boundaries with sure-footed ease to make his case. Anyone who cares how the Christian tradition holds together will be provoked, stimulated, and informed by what he says here.”

— Bruce D. Marshall Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University

“In this remarkable and arresting book, Philipp Rosemann rewrites accounts of tradition in the unfolding of the Christian legacy. As he shows, its continuity does not preclude decisive episodes of both rupture and return, nor of ambiguity, in which universal liberation may entail new and specific repressions. With great originality, Rosemann argues that catholic truth resides somewhere between revolutionary ‘despoliation’ and a renewed ‘literal’ respect even for the apparently superseded other.”

— Catherine Pickstock University of Cambridge

Philipp W. Rosemann holds the Chair of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth; he previously taught philosophy at the University of Dallas. His other books include The Story of a Great Medieval Book: Peter Lombard’s “Sentences,” which studies the tradition of Christianity’s most influential theology textbook.

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“This is a marvelous meditation on tradition and transgression, whose inextricable connection is explored with respect to the Christian tradition from Jewish origins to problematic postmodernism. Its range extends from Foucault, Heidegger, and Kant to Peter Lombard, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Augustine. . . . It is as alert to the connection of devotion and transgression in the Middle Ages as it is to the empty impertinence of some contemporary forms of transgression. . . . A remarkable, indeed outstanding book. Very warmly recommended.” — William Desmond Villanova University Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

“Philipp Rosemann is a very unusual historian of theology and philosophy whose work is always informed by strongly theoretical interests, deeply explored, yet lightly borne and lucidly expounded, as the reader of this book will quickly discover. . . . The remarkable unity of Rosemann’s ultimate vision shines through all the careful scholarly precision and ecclesial good sense of this work.”

— John Milbank (from foreword) University of Nottingham

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T H E O L O G Y

Reimagining the Analogia Entis

Ecce Homo

The Future of Erich Przywara’s Christian Vision

On the Divine Unity of Christ

Philip John Paul Gonzales

Aaron Riches

Foreword by Cyril O’Regan

Foreword by Rowan Williams

In 1932 German theologian and philosopher Erich Przywara penned his Analogia Entis, a vision of the analogy of being and a metaphysical exploration of the dynamic between God and creation. A translation into English in 2014 made Przywara’s brilliant and influential work available to more people than ever before. In this book Philip Gonzales calls English-speaking readers to embrace the Christian treasure of the Analogia Entis and to reimagine what it offers Christians today.

“Ecce Homo fulfills a need for a readable, philosophically well-informed Christology. . . . This book is a milestone for Christology in the twenty-first century.”

“I could give no better endorsement of Philip Gonzales’s excellent study of Erich Przywara than to quote from it. For anyone ‘seeking an antifoundationalist postmodern understanding of Christian philosophy,’ or how to strike an analogical balance between the discourses of philosophy and theology, ‘Przywara surely takes us forward.’ In this book Gonzales tells us with gusto why and how this is so.”

— John Betz University of Notre Dame

Philip John Paul Gonzales is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is the editor of Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O’Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity and the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews.

978-0-8028-7671-3 / hardcover / 384 pages / $80.00 [£63.00] / January

A Theology of Grace in Six Controversies Edward T. Oakes, S.J. Foreword by Robert Barron “Deeply cultured, brilliant, and witty, Edward Oakes was an irreplaceable theologian. Reading Oakes, I always think that this is what it would have been like had Chesterton written the works of von Balthasar. One finds here a master of Christian apologetics drawing upon the full spectrum of the Christian tradition’s resources and delivering highly intellectual arguments in wonderfully accessible prose. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will relish this fitting last testament to grace from the pen of one of America’s greatest Jesuits.” — Matthew Levering

— Francesca Murphy University of Notre Dame

“Contemporary scholarship tends to separate the man Jesus from the divine Word and, consequently, to banish the divine from the created realm. Aaron Riches shows us, instead, how to understand—boldly, coherently, and consistently—the paradox of the one Lord Jesus Christ. . . . An insightful, stimulating, and often provocative presentation of the person of Christ for today.”

— John Behr St. Vladimir’s Seminary, New York

Aaron Riches is a joint faculty member of the Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein and the Instituto de Teología Lumen Gentium in Granada, Spain, where he teaches theology at the Seminario Mayor San Cecilio.

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Hauerwas A (Very) Critical Introduction Nicholas M. Healy “A must-read! Healy interprets Hauerwas as mirroring Schleiermacher. It’s a provocation so clearly argued that this will become a touchstone, not just for future interpretation of Hauerwas but for our engagement with a great deal of contemporary theology.”

— R. R. Reno editor of First Things

“Theological controversy is an art in which few are skilled. This (very) critical response to a much-admired contemporary, however, exemplifies the virtues necessary to mount a substantial challenge without straying into invective.”

— John Webster University of St. Andrews

Mundelein Seminary

Edward T. Oakes, S. J. (1948–2013) was associate professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, and a longtime member of Catholics and Evangelicals Together.

Nicholas M. Healy is professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.

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Library of Religious Biography Mark A. Noll and Heath W. Carter, series editors

The Miracle Lady

George Whitefield

Kathryn Kuhlman and the Transformation of Charismatic Christianity

Evangelist for God and Empire

Amy Collier Artman

Foreword by Mark A. Noll

Peter Y. Choi

Foreword by Kate Bowler On October 15, 1974, Johnny Carson welcomed his next guest on The Tonight Show with these words: “I imagine there are very few people who are not aware of Kathryn Kuhlman. She probably, along with Billy Graham, is one of the best-known preachers in the country.” But while many people today recognize Billy Graham, not many remember Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976), who preached faith and miracles to countless people over the fifty-five years of her ministry and became one of the most important figures in the rise of charismatic Christianity.

In The Miracle Lady Amy Collier Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream. Tracing her remarkable career as a media-savvy preacher and fleshing out her unconventional character, Artman also shows how Kuhlman skillfully navigated the oppressive structures, rules, and land mines that surrounded female religious leaders in her conservative circles.

“Kathryn Kuhlman was an unlikely twentieth-century American celebrity who captivated millions—at once mystical, daring, charming, and conservative, all of which Amy Artman brings to life. Artman’s sympathetic account places Kuhlman at the center of a movement that reshaped American religion in ways that are still evident today.”

— John Wigger author of PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire

Amy Collier Artman teaches in the Religious Studies Department at Missouri State University. She holds a PhD in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago.

George Whitefield (1714–1770) is remembered as a spirited revivalist, a catalyst for the Great Awakening, and a founder of the evangelical movement in America. But Whitefield was also a citizen of the British Empire who used his political savvy and theological creativity to champion the cause of imperial expansion. In this religious biography of “the Grand Itinerant,” Peter Choi recounts a fascinating human story and, in the process, reexamines the Great Awakening and its relationship to a fast-growing British Empire.

“Choi concentrates on the neglected second half of the Grand Itinerant’s public career, after the revival fires had cooled. This provocative book’s Whitefield is not merely a celebrity evangelist; he is an imperial strategist, a tactical theologian, and an empire builder who becomes an eager slaveholder and wartime propagandist.”

— Christopher Grasso

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College of William and Mary

“In this impressive debut, Choi presents a bold recontextualization of the life of George Whitefield. . . . The book’s accessible prose and clear signposting make this an excellent choice for a general reader, and Choi’s engagement with broader issues of 18th-century colonialism will make it an important volume for scholars of early America.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review) Peter Y. Choi is Director of Academic Programs at Newbigin House of Studies in San Francisco. Specializing in eighteenth-century American history, he has taught history of Christianity courses at Calvin Theological Seminary and the University of Notre Dame.

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R. David Cox “Nearly every aspect of Robert E. Lee’s life and military career has been carefully examined in scores of books. We know that his character and actions were shaped in considerable part by his religious beliefs, but until now we have not had a systematic analysis of those beliefs. This book adds an important dimension to our understanding of Lee and his world.”

— James M. McPherson

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A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards George M. Marsden “Lucid and wise, brief but broadly informative, this book introduces present-day Americans to the greatest of early American Christian thinkers and to the colonial society in which he lived.”

— Daniel Walker Howe “Marsden is easily the most distinguished historian of Edwards in the world today. . . . With a clear and engaging writing style, he makes America’s most brilliant colonial intellectual come alive as no other scholar has done.”

— Harry S. Stout

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life Nancy Koester

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“An accessible and absorbing interpretive biography. . . . Koester engagingly and intelligently discusses each major novel, each family crisis, each journey, and each spiritual change, including a fluctuating interest in spiritualism after the deaths of two of [Stowe’s] sons, without a whiff of academic fustiness. A topnotch read.”

— Booklist (starred review)

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Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken D. G. Hart A provocative, iconoclastic perspective on the life of reporter, literary critic, and famous American agnostic H. L. Mencken (1880–1956). Even as Mencken vividly debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely framed his ideas and career. Mencken’s relationship to the Christian faith was at once antagonistic and symbiotic.

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The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee

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Emblem of Faith Untouched: A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer Leslie Williams “Leslie Williams has composed an extremely accessible life of Thomas Cranmer. It is written vividly but simply, clearly but affectingly. She has captured the man— and she also underlines Cranmer’s importance for contemporary conflicts within the Anglican Church. Though long dead, the Archbishop speaketh still!”

— Paul F. M. Zahl

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The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather Rick Kennedy “Cotton Mather is widely seen as a moralistic hypocrite, a one-dimensional bad guy we moderns love to hate. But in this lively new biography, he takes on flesh and blood and, more importantly, a heart. . . . This courageous little book offers readers a better feel for Mather’s vibrant, quirky, learned, evangelical spirituality than anything before.”

— Douglas A. Sweeney

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Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat James D. Bratt “At last! This is what many of us have been waiting for—a careful, detailed, and highly readable(!) biography of Kuyper in all of his human complexity. Jim Bratt has given us the comprehensive study of ‘Father Abraham’ that will serve English speakers for years to come.”

— Richard J. Mouw

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In This World of Wonders Memoir of a Life in Learning Nicholas Wolterstorff

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World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more.

His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remarkable man.

Written not as a complete life story but as a series of vignettes, Wolterstorff’s memoir moves from his humble beginnings in a tiny Minnesota town to his education at Calvin College and Harvard University, to his career of teaching philosophy and writing books, to the experiences that prompted some of his writing—particularly his witnessing South African apartheid and Palestinian oppression firsthand.

In This World of Wonders is the story of a thoughtful and grateful Christian whose life has been shaped by many loves—love of philosophy, love of family, love of art and architecture, love of nature and gardening, and more. It’s a lovely, wonderful story.

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“If you ever thought philosophy dull, read this book and think again. Nick Wolterstorff describes the rich landscape of his life—art, music, love, grief, the academy, houses, travel, family, furniture, and much more—in a vivid, fast-paced, and deeply moving account.”

— N. T. Wright “Nicholas Wolterstorff has contributed so much over the course of his life, and this memoir, told with incredible grace, humility, and charm, gives us a fascinating look at how his faith, theology, and commitment to justice have been shaped and put to use. His is a life worth reading about, and he is someone I deeply admire.”

— Jim Wallis “Nick Wolterstorff ’s memoir demolishes common stereotypes of academics. The role of the ivory tower pales in significance in comparison to his Dutch immigrant community in Minnesota. This would be a compelling story even if it were not a first-person eyewitness account of the extraordinary twentieth-century renaissance of Christian philosophy. Beyond that, it is a moving reflection on a life marked by grace, grief, and gratitude.”

— Kevin J. Vanhoozer “The worlds of wonder that Nicholas Wolterstorff opens up in this affecting memoir include rural Dutch-America, a Kuyperian mind-set, analytical philosophy, humane pedagogy, art understood as craftsmanship, the deep realities (joy and sorrow alike) of family, and more. This book is as deeply moving as it beautifully understated.”

— Mark Noll Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. Before going to Yale he taught philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for thirty years. His other books include Justice in Love, Educating for Shalom, The God We Worship, and Lament for a Son.

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“Nicholas Wolterstorff’s fingerprints are all over the better sort of American evangelicalism, from the revival of Christian philosophy to a reawakening of passion for social justice to the renewal of interest in liturgy and the arts. If you lived through these things, as I did, this book is for you.”

— David Neff “Always poignant, evocative, and honest, Wolterstorff leads us through one remarkable vignette after another with the deftness of a master. When you have finished reading, you will feel pain that it’s time to leave his world of wonders.”

— Neal Plantinga

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Can I Get a Witness?

Thirteen Peacemakers, Community Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice Charles Marsh, Shea Tuttle, and Daniel P. Rhodes, editors

B I O G R A P H Y

Discover here the compelling stories of thirteen pioneers for social justice who engaged in peaceful protest and gave voice to the marginalized, working courageously out of their religious convictions to transform American culture. Their prophetic witness still speaks today.

Comprising a spectrum of voices—Catholic and Protestant, gay and straight, men and women of many different racial backgrounds—these activist witnesses represent the best of the church’s peacemakers, community builders, and inside agitators. Written by select authors, Can I Get a Witness? showcases vibrant storytelling and research-enriched narrative to bring these significant “peculiar people” to life.

Contributors & Subjects Daniel P. Rhodes on Cesar Chavez Donyelle McCray on Howard Thurman Grace Y. Kao on Yuri Kochiyama Peter Slade on Howard Kester Nichole M. Flores on Ella Baker Carlene Bauer on Dorothy Day Heather A. Warren on John A. Ryan Becca Stevens on Frank William Stringfellow W. Ralph Eubanks on Mahalia Jackson Susan M. Glisson and Charles H. Tucker on Lucy Randolph Mason Soong-Chan Rah on Richard Twiss David Dark on Daniel Berrigan M. Therese Lysaught on Mary Stella Simpson Charles Marsh is Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia.

Shea Tuttle is editorial and program manager of the Project on Lived Theology.

Daniel P. Rhodes is clinical assistant professor of social justice at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago.

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A Documentary History of Religion in America FO URTH E D ITIO N

Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, and Heath W. Carter, editors

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Students and scholars have long turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to American religious history. Published in a single volume for the first time, the work in this fourth edition has been both updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily use the material in one semester.

“This updated collection of primary documents has been expertly pulled into a single volume to give a new generation of students access to a wide range of prominent religious voices. These carefully curated readings beautifully showcase the character of American religion.”

— Kate Bowler Duke Divinity School

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“What a gift! Heath Carter has consolidated Gaustad and Noll’s classic into an accessible single-volume resource while also expanding the diversity of perspectives represented within. Expertly framed and clearly contextualized, this will be an indispensable volume for years to come.”

— Kathryn Gin Lum

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Stanford University

“A classic is now even better. One could hardly imagine a combination better suited than Mark Noll and Heath Carter to update Edwin Gaustad’s muchadmired collection. Noll brings his unsurpassed knowledge of the field, and Carter adds perspectives that are engaging a younger generation of historians. Many of the new additions are fascinating reading just in themselves.”

— George M. Marsden University of Notre Dame

“Gaustad’s Documentary History has long been the gold standard for teachers who want to bring primary sources into their American religious history classrooms. In this fourth edition Noll and Carter have managed to improve upon a classic!”

— John Fea Messiah College

Edwin S. Gaustad (1923–2011) was professor emeritus of history and religious studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame.

Heath W. Carter is associate professor of history at Valparaiso University and coeditor (with Mark Noll) of the Library of Religious Biography series.

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Pagans and Christians in the City

A Brief History

Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac

George M. Marsden

Steven D. Smith

In this thought-provoking book George Marsden, a leading historian of American religion, engagingly tells the story of the paradoxical relationship between religion and American culture. Surveying the historical landscape from colonial America onward up to the present, Marsden here offers the kind of historically and religiously informed scholarship that has made him one of the nation’s most respected and decorated historians.

“An astute, accessible, and wonderful introduction to the fascinating puzzle of American religious history.”

— Thomas S. Kidd Baylor University

“In this highly readable volume Marsden provides a sweeping overview of religion in American history. He not only sketches the landscape with enviable clarity but also offers an interpretive frame for understanding the relationship of American religion and culture—and ultimately for comprehending a nation that is ‘both remarkably religious and remarkably profane.’ ” — Kristin Du Mez

Foreword by Robert P. George Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the US wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: Christians two thousand years ago faced similar challenges. Smith argues in Pagans and Christians in the City that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. He looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today.

“A wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful book. Its lucid style draws the reader into a world of ancient questions and contemporary debates whose often surprising connections Smith helps us to see in a new and suggestive light.

Secularists and believers alike have much to learn from his careful, balanced, and generous account.”

— Anthony Kr onman Yale Law School

Calvin College

“Any list of the most influential American historians of the past half-century would undoubtedly include George Marsden. His Religion and American Culture is a careful, balanced assessment not only of Christianity’s complex role in American history but also of American culture’s influence on Christianity. No better brief yet profound treatment of Christianity’s 400 years in the United States exists than this volume.”

— Rick Ostrander Council for Christian Colleges & Universities

George M. Marsden is professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame. Among his many other books is Jonathan Edwards: A Life, which was named one of ten “Books of the Year” for 2003 by Atlantic Monthly and received the prestigious Bancroft Prize in history (2004), the Grawemeyer Award in religion (2005), and a half dozen other awards.

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Religion and American Culture

“Written with Smith’s characteristic clarity and bite, Pagans and Christians in the City canvasses a broad landscape of history, law, political theory, and religion to explore some of the deepest past and present questions of humanity—and warns how our answers to those questions will shape our future.”

— John Inazu

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“As engrossing, lucid, and jargonless a scholarly book as has ever been written.”

— Booklist (starred review)

Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and serves as codirector of the university’s Institute for Law and Religion. His other books include The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom.

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Slavery’s Long Shadow

Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity James L. Gorman, Jeff W. Childers, and Mark W. Hamilton, editors

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Despite claims that Jesus Christ transcends all racial barriers, the most segregated hour in America still comes every Sunday morning, when Christians gather for worship.

In Slavery’s Long Shadow fourteen scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first century. The book’s three sections offer readers three different entry points into the conversation: major historical periods, case studies, and ways forward. Historians and all Christians interested in racial reconciliation will find that this book helpfully illuminates our Christian and national past and points us toward a more unified future.

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Tanya Smith Brice Joel A. Brown Lawrence A. Q. Burnley Jeff W. Childers Wes Crawford James L. Gorman Richard T. Hughes Loretta Hunnicutt Christopher R. Hutson Kathy Pulley Edward J. Robinson Kamilah Hall Sharp Jerry Taylor D. Newell Williams “An exceptional collection of essays whose central claim is that the inextricable connection of race relations and Christian unity is at the heart of the history of American Christianity. . . . This intelligent, accessible, and timely volume promises to help the church be what it has miserably failed to be in the past—the headlights in the current conversation on racial healing.”

— David Fleer Lipscomb University

James L. Gorman is associate professor of history at Johnson University in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Jeff W. Childers is Carmichael-Walling Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at Abilene Christian University.

Mark W. Hamilton is Robert and Kay Onstead Professor of Biblical Studies at Abilene Christian University.

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Why Study the Past?

Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine

Paul Mojzes, editor

Rowan Williams

Thomas G. Guarino

History textbooks typically list 1945–1990 as the Cold War years, but it is clear that tensions from that period are still influencing world politics today. While much attention is given to political and social responses to those first nuclear threats, none has been given to the reactions of Christian churches. Written by thirty-four scholars and church leaders, North American Churches and the Cold War offers the first systematic reflection on the diverse responses of Canadian and American churches to potential nuclear disaster.

Why should we study the past? What is church history good for? In this thoughtful volume, respected theologian and churchman Rowan Williams opens up a theological vision of history, making it relevant to the church today.

He suggests that studying history plays a crucial role in understanding who we are as human beings—and how we have become who we are.

Now including a new preface in this American edition, Why Study the Past? beautifully shows how church history informs and illuminates our Christian identity and human solidarity in the often-confusing present.

The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) radically shook up many centuries of tradition in the Roman Catholic Church. This book

by Thomas Guarino, a noted expert on the sources and methods of Catholic doctrine, investigates whether Vatican II’s highly contested teachings on religious freedom, ecumenism, and the Virgin Mary represented a harmonious development of—or a rupture with—Catholic tradition.

“In this lucid and illuminating study Thomas Guarino recounts Vatican II’s dramatic effort to hold in creative tension both fidelity and development, continuity and newness. . . . Offers new understanding and appreciation for the decisive ecclesial event of the twentieth century.” — Fr. Robert P. Imbelli Boston College

“This book is vintage Guarino—erudite, crystal clear, ecumenically sensitive—the product of deep love for the church.”

— Hans Boersma Regent College

“This should become a landmark in interpreting Vatican II, because it penetrates into the deeper theological strata of the major documents.”

— Jared Wicks

“This volume makes a distinctive and unique contribution to Cold War studies and has a new relevance as well. It belongs in every library.”

— Harvey Cox Harvard Divinity School

“The Cold War (1945–1990) lingers with us—its tensions, its violence, its centers of power, and its lessons in ethical and moral courage. Its continuing impact on North American churches is laid before us usefully in this unique volume. What a gem!”

— Joan Brown Campbell National Council of Churches Chautauqua Institution

“Future study of the past and continuing history of the Cold War will begin with this fertile book.”

— M. Douglas Meeks

Pontifical Gregorian University

Vanderbilt Divinity School

Thomas G. Guarino is professor of systematic theology at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, and cochair of the initiative Evangelicals and Catholics Together.

Paul Mojzes is professor emeritus of religious studies at Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and coeditor of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies. His previous books include Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century.

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The Quest for the Historical Church

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North American Churches and the Cold War

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The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II

“Typical of Williams’s work, the prose is lucid and often beautiful, and he demonstrates his knack for tackling issues which are quite complex, but in a manner which elucidates, clarifies, and leaves the reader with something new to ponder, all without dismantling or glossing over the very complexity he seeks to address.”

— Religious Studies Review “Others would turn such a topic into a bone-dry lecture, but Williams’s christological vision is thrilling.”

—The Christian Century “A refreshing and clear case for the importance of church history in Christian life today.”

— The Living Church Rowan Williams served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012 and is now Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. His many other books include Being Christian, Being Disciples, and Being Human.

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Faith and Fossils The Bible, Creation, and Evolution Lester L. Grabbe Many books have been written on the Bible and evolution by scientists, but this volume is written by a biblical specialist. In Faith and Fossils Lester Grabbe, a prominent Hebrew Bible scholar, examines the Bible in its ancient context and explores its meaning in light of emerging scientific evidence.

Both the Bible and the fossil record raise significant questions about what it means to be human, and Grabbe expertly draws on both sources to grapple with who we are and where we came from. Written in uncomplicated language and featuring eleven spectacular color plates, Grabbe’s Faith and Fossils creatively shows how science and faith intersect in questions about human origins.

“In this wonderful volume Lester Grabbe brings to the table the profound knowledge of a gifted biblical scholar—but a knowledge that is accompanied by pastoral sensitivities. Entirely absent, therefore, are polemics. And that which is present can only be described as erudition and compassion. His Faith and Fossils will build bridges between people on all sides of this hotly debated subject. I heartily recommend it.”

— Christopher Rollston George Washington University

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. His other books include Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (revised edition).

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Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of SameSex Relationships Karen R. Keen When it comes to same-sex relationships, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, balanced, biblically grounded discussion you’re likely to encounter anywhere.

With pastoral sensitivity and respect for biblical authority, Keen breaks through current stalemates in the debate surrounding faith and sexual identity.

Keen’s fresh, evenhanded reevaluation of Scripture, Christian tradition, and science will appeal to both traditionalist and progressive church leaders and parishioners, students of ethics and biblical studies, and gay and lesbian people who often feel painfully torn between faith and sexuality.

“At a time when debates about the viability of samesex unions for Christians often generate more heat than light, this marvelous little book by Karen Keen is a true gift. . . . All readers will benefit from, and be blessed by, engaging with Keen’s well-researched, well-written, heartfelt book.”

— Gregory A. Boyd pastor, author of Letters from a Skeptic and Cross Vision

“Karen Keen here provides a needed, integrative perspective that fruitfully brings together evangelical biblical interpretation, theological ethics, and pastoral wisdom to frame a loving, Christ-honoring discussion about same-sex relationships.”

— Elaine A. Heath author of God Unbound: Wisdom from Galatians for the Anxious Church

Karen R. Keen (ThM, Duke Divinity School) is a biblical scholar, author, and spiritual director residing in Durham, North Carolina.

Founder of the Redwood Center for Spiritual Care, she blogs at karenkeen.com.

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Acts of Interpretation Scripture, Theology, and Culture S. A. Cummins and Jens Zimmermann, editors Authored by leading figures in the theological interpretation of Scripture, this book features broad reflections on key interpretive issues, rich readings of challenging biblical texts, and interaction with the Christian exegetical tradition from Melito of Sardis to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Contents Scripture, Theology, and Culture: Considerations and Contributions S. A. Cummins 1. A Proposal for Advancing the Theological Interpretation of Scripture Stephen E. Fowl 2. A Discursive Frame for Reading Scripture

Joel B. Green 3. The Bible, Evolution, and the Journey of Faith

Peter Enns 4. Genesis 1:2 and the Doctrine of Creation

Craig G. Bartholomew 5. A Canonical Reading of Ecclesiastes

Christopher R. Seitz 6. What’s “Catholic” about the “Catholic” Epistles Collection? Robert W. Wall 7. Mixing Wine with Water: Enjoyment and Expectation through the Style of the Apocalypse

Edith M. Humphrey 8. Reading the Exodus Story with Melito and Origen Hans Boersma 9. Reading Paul’s Letter to the Romans with Aquinas and Calvin Charles Raith II 10. Reading the Old Testament with Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jens Zimmermann

S. A. Cummins is professor of religious studies at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia.

Jens Zimmermann is Canada Research Professor of Interpretation, Religion, and Culture at Trinity Western University and visiting professor of philosophy, literature, and theology at Regent College, Vancouver.

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Written to Be Heard

Canonical Narrative and Christian Faith

Recovering the Message of the Gospels

L. Daniel Hawk

Paul Borgman and Kelly James Clark

Foreword by John Goldingay

Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff

The teachings of the incarnate Jesus sometimes seem to be at odds with the edicts of the God of Israel. Joshua commands God’s people to wipe out everyone in the Promised Land, yet Jesus commands God’s people to love their enemies. How are we to interpret passages on violence when it is sanctioned at one point and condemned at another?

The Violence of the Biblical God by L. Daniel Hawk offers a new framework, solidly rooted in the authority of Scripture, for understanding the paradox of God’s participation in violence. Hawk suggests that the historical narrative of the Bible offers multiple canonical pictures for faithful Christian engagement with the violent systems of the world.

Reading Scripture as the story of the Creator’s decision to restore creation by working within and along with humanity, Hawk shows how Christians with diverse perspectives can at once be faithful to the biblical text and partake in a common conversation on violence.

The words of the gospels were meant to be heard. When we read them silently instead, we miss much of the message because we’re working in the wrong medium. In Written to Be Heard Paul Borgman and Kelly James Clark offer the keys to recovering the radical, relevant message of each gospel as it was first heard.

The shaping of the gospels for oral performances, which would have been obvious to ancient (mostly preliterate) listeners, is lost on even the best contemporary reader. With careful analysis of the gospel writers’ particular voices within their own ancient literary contexts, Borgman and Clark equip readers to read as if hearing, focusing on overlapping patterns of cues that embed each text within a theological perspective.

“By examining the narrative rhetoric of various biblical testimonies, Daniel Hawk provides an unflinching look at the roles of divine violence in the Bible. With nuance and close readings matched by an overarching outlook, Hawk significantly advances the discussion by exploring the diversity of tradition and at the same time discerning a theologically profound narrative arc. . . . His aim is to move beyond heated debate toward faithful dialogue, which the Bible itself models.”

— William P. Brown Columbia Theological Seminary

L. Daniel Hawk is professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Ashland Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.

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The Violence of the Biblical God

“The experience of many readers will be, as was mine, that of scales falling from one’s eyes. So that’s the message of Matthew, of Mark, of Luke-Acts, of John! . . .

Why didn’t someone write Written to Be Heard long ago?”

— Nicholas Wolterstorff (from foreword) Paul Borgman is professor emeritus of English at Gordon College and the author of The Way according to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts.

Kelly James Clark is senior research fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University; his many other books include When Faith Is Not Enough.

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An Introduction to the Scriptures of Israel History and Theology

An Introduction to Israel’s Wisdom Traditions

Tzvi Novick

John L. McLaughlin

In this distinctive textbook for Hebrew Bible courses, author Tzvi Novick’s approach is thematic rather than chronological. Sorting the books according to their historical context, theological claims, and literary conventions, Novick examines and elucidates the historical and intellectual development of the Hebrew Bible.

With attentiveness to both historical-critical and traditional-canonical approaches, An Introduction to the Scriptures of Israel focuses on the dichotomy of the particular and the universal. It shows how this dichotomy impacts each book’s style and content and how it informs the development of Jewish and Christian traditions. This nontraditional textbook is coherent, engaging, and succinct—a perfect resource for any introductory Hebrew Bible course.

Based on twenty-five years of teaching Israel’s wisdom literature to university students, this introductory-level textbook by John L. McLaughlin makes that complicated genre straightforward and accessible.

McLaughlin begins by explaining the meaning of wisdom to the Israelites and surrounding cultures before moving into the conventions of the genre and its poetic forms. The heart of the book examines Proverbs, Job, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), and the deuterocanonical Ben Sira and Wisdom of Solomon. McLaughlin also explores the influence of wisdom throughout the Old Testament and in the New Testament.

“Novick’s innovative introduction to Israel’s scriptures has grown organically from his teaching experience, and it communicates the excitement of a lively humanities course. . . . A learned but accessible introduction to the Hebrew Bible, to biblical studies, and to the distinct ways Jews and Christians interpret the Bible.”

— Joel S. Kaminsky Smith College

“Simultaneously broad enough to be useful in a variety of educational settings yet also detailed and specific enough to further scholarly insight. Rather than simply beginning with Genesis and proceeding in canonical order, Tzvi Novick considers how themes of ‘the universal’ and ‘the particular’ are presented and held in tension within Israel’s scriptures. With his lucid, even elegant writing, Novick gives readers of all levels a new way to look at this ancient text.” — Sara M. Koenig Seattle Pacific University

Tzvi Novick holds the Abrams Chair of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

“Offers an excellent, accessible reading of wisdom across the Bible. McLaughlin brings readers into the world of wisdom ranging from Egypt to Mesopotamia, and he masterfully presents the conventions of Hebrew poetry. . . . A pleasure to read, most highly recommended.”

— Mark S. Smith Princeton Theological Seminary

“A welcome introduction to an understudied and underappreciated body of biblical literature. McLaughlin provides helpful, concise, and insightful discussions of all of the wisdom books found in the Hebrew Bible and the deutero-canon.”

— Gary N. Knoppers University of Notre Dame

John L. McLaughlin is professor of Old Testament / Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto.

His previous books include What Are They Saying about Ancient Israelite Religion? and The Ancient Near East: An Essential Guide.

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What reviewers have said over the years about TDOT

“Provides a much-needed resource into the language of the Old Testament, particularly as it relates to the ancient Near East. . . . A must for any serious student of the Old Testament.”

— Southwestern Journal of Theology “A tool that no Bible student can afford to ignore; it takes its place alongside Kittel as a classic reference work.”

— Christianity Today “Students of the Bible have cause for rejoicing as each volume of this scholarly work appears. . . . This ‘theological dictionary’ focuses on the etymology of Hebrew terms, then explores their cultural and historical contexts, finally suggesting their importance in a theological framework without espousing a particular denominational bias.”

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“The Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament is a monumental contribution to the study of the Old Testament, and very highly recommended. No library can afford to be without it.”

— Hebrew Studies

— American Reference Books Annual

Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry, editors

“[TDOT] amasses a great deal of useful information (including bibliography) on the words dealt with, which most scholars would find difficult to ferret out on their own. . . . Clearly, no serious exegete of the Old Testament should overlook it.”

— Journal of the American Academy of Religion “This series will long remain a classic work, a storehouse of information, well organized and carefully judged and nuanced. Every major biblical library should possess it.”

— The Bible Today

Volume XVI: Aramaic Dictionary

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“An important and interesting scholastic tool, essential for any library that serves serious Bible students, theological scholars, church-school teachers, pastors, or interested laypeople.”

— Choice

Holger Gzella, editor The monumental, critically acclaimed Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament concludes with an Aramaic dictionary. This last TDOT volume incorporates nearly the complete lexicon of Biblical Aramaic along with a major portion of the theologically, culturally, and historically relevant terms in other ancient Aramaic writings. Each article provides information on the term’s meaning and usage, is fully annotated, and contains a bibliography with cross-references to the entire TDOT series.

Holger Gzella is professor of Hebrew and Aramaic at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

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Jesus in Jerusalem

Biblical Theology of the New Testament

The Last Days

Peter Stuhlmacher

Eckhard J. Schnabel

Translated and edited by Daniel P. Bailey Foreword by G. K. Beale

Foreword by Craig A. Evans This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem. Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel’s Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaeological evidence to profile the seventytwo people and groups and the seventeen geographic locations named in the four passion narratives. Placing the events of Jesus’ last days in chronological order, he unpacks their theological significance.

“Eckhard Schnabel has emerged as one of the world’s foremost New Testament scholars. . . . Every reader will be impressed by the depth of learning reflected in this comprehensive, encyclopedic book.”

— Craig A. Evans (from foreword) Houston Baptist University

“Many have undertaken to write about Jesus’ last days in Jerusalem, but few have done so with Schnabel’s magisterial command of the sources, both Jewish and Greco-Roman, or with his knowledge of the secondary literature. . . . No one will be able to engage this literature in the future without weighing the careful and detailed work of Eckhard Schnabel.”

— D. A. Carson

Since its original publication decades ago, Peter Stuhlmacher’s twovolume Biblische Theologie des Neuen Testaments has influenced an entire generation of biblical scholars and theologians. Daniel Bailey’s expert translation from the German makes this important work available in English for the first time. A concluding essay by Bailey applies Stuhlmacher’s approach to specific texts in Romans and 4 Maccabees.

“Peter Stuhlmacher’s Biblical Theology of the New Testament provides a powerful challenge and a viable alternative to nearly every other theology of the New Testament. By rooting its theology of the New Testament in the faith and religious understanding of Israel, it presents readers with a truly ‘biblical theology’ that listens to and understands the New Testament as it wants to be heard and read—with faith.”

— Frank J. Matera Catholic University of America

“In this brilliant volume Stuhlmacher presents a superb, monumental biblical theology that consistently sheds light on the teaching of the New Testament. I know of no other book that mines the richness of the New Testament so effectively and helpfully.”

— Donald A. Hagner Fuller Theological Seminary

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

“As always, Schnabel’s work is comprehensive, independent, insightful, and well documented, critically engaging a wide range of scholarship and other sources. We see the full fruit of such massive scholarship on display here.”

— Craig S. Keener Asbury Theological Seminary

Eckhard J. Schnabel is the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

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“At last!—the English translation of Stuhlmacher’s great two-volume Biblical Theology from the 1990s. Not least of the benefits of this publication are the updated bibliography and critical interaction with German- and English-language scholarship reaching into the twenty-first century. The long wait has been well worth it!”

— James D. G. Dunn Durham University

Peter Stuhlmacher is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of Tübingen.

Daniel P. Bailey holds a PhD in New Testament from the University of Cambridge.

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Jesus the Spirit Baptizer

Now in paperback!

Christology in Light of Pentecost

James D. G. Dunn

Frank D. Macchia

A Man Attested by God The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels

Foreword by Rowan Williams New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn has published his research on Christian origins in numerous commentaries, books, and essays.

In this small, straightforward book designed especially for a lay audience, Dunn focuses his fifty-plus years of scholarship on the central question posed by the New Testament—who is Jesus?

Dunn surveys the New Testament books from Matthew to Revelation, exploring and unpacking what they actually say about the central, essential figure in Christian life and thought. Dunn’s Jesus according to the New Testament points to the wonder of those first witnesses and enriches our understanding of who Jesus is to us today.

“Jesus according to the New Testament comprises dozens of insights for professors, a bag full of learning opportunities for students, and a multitude of suggestions for preachers and pastors. Dunn’s top-level, judicious scholarship shines forth on each page without obscuring the clarities of the witness to Jesus. Too often we get lost in battles about theological topics or historical connections and miss the main point. Dunn keeps us focused on the heart of the gospel and the New Testament—the Lord Jesus.”

— Scot McKnight Northern Seminary

James D. G. Dunn is Lightfoot Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Durham University and one of the foremost New Testament scholars in the world today. His many other books include the magisterial Christianity in the Making trilogy and The Theology of Paul the Apostle.

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This book by globally recognized Pentecostal scholar Frank Macchia brings an incarnational and a Spirit Christology together in fresh, groundbreaking ways. Drawing from both classical and contemporary sources, Jesus the Spirit Baptizer probes the fundamental connection between the person of Christ and the Holy Spirit, arguing that Christology properly explicates Jesus as the one who bears the Spirit so as to impart the Spirit to all flesh.

“Frank Macchia understands the outpouring of the life-giving Spirit as the fulfillment of Christ’s life and mission. And so he rightly interprets the birth, passion, and resurrection of Christ from the perspective of Pentecost. . . . I am grateful for this book.”

— Jürgen Moltmann University of Tübingen

“A needed corrective to the sad fact of the Holy Spirit’s neglect by Christian theology. By depicting Pentecost, not Easter, as the climax of the incarnation, Macchia presents a Trinitarian reading of the Gospel narrative that not only integrates the work of the Son and the Spirit but also offers a robust eschatology full of hopeful anticipation.”

— J. Warren Smith Duke Divinity School

“Frank Macchia has long been at the vanguard of Pentecostal theology as it has engaged the historic Christian theological tradition. This Pentecostal Christology of his reconfigures the entire theological landscape!”

— Amos Yong

J. R. Daniel Kirk Winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s 2017 Award for Best Book Relating to the New Testament, J. R. Daniel Kirk’s A Man Attested by God presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure.

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Jesus according to the New Testament

“Everyone concerned with the origins of Christian belief needs to take note of this work.”

— Morna D. Hooker University of Cambridge

“A robust and challenging work that will almost certainly prove to be one of the most significant contributions to the discussion of Christology in the Synoptic Gospels penned in recent memory.”

— Reviews in Religion and Theology J. R. Daniel Kirk holds a PhD in New Testament from Duke University and has taught at North Carolina State University, St. Joseph’s University, Eastern College, and Fuller Theological Seminary.

978-0-8028-7638-6 / paperback / 656 pages $50.00 [£39.00] / September

Fuller Theological Seminary

Frank D. Macchia is professor of Christian theology at Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, California, and associate director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University, Wales (UK).

978-0-8028-7389-7 / hardcover / 424 pages $48.00 [£38.00] / September

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Revelation and the End of All Things

From Good News to Gospels

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What Did the First Christians Say about Jesus?

Craig R. Koester Since its first publication in 2001, Revelation and the End of All Things has been a highly readable guide to one of the most challenging books in the Bible. Engaging the questions people most often ask about Revelation, including many sensationalistic interpretations, Craig Koester offers informed and compelling perspectives on the entire book.

In this second edition Koester provides new insights from recent scholarship and responses to the latest popular apocalyptic voices. Discussion questions make this new edition ideal for study groups and classrooms.

Praise for the first edition “This book offers an innovative introduction to Revelation. . . . Highly recommended for ministry students, church study groups, and general readers.”

— Adela Yarbro Collins “A lucid, close reading of the text that will be valuable for anyone wanting to understand John’s puzzling visions.”

— Interpretation “Koester’s book is informative and easy to read. . . .

Highly recommended for undergraduate university or seminary students and for pastors and Bible study groups.”

— Catholic Biblical Quarterly

“In Christ” in Paul

David Wenham Foreword by Donald A. Hagner This book by David Wenham delves into the gospels, the book of Acts, and the writings of Paul to uncover evidence of a strong and substantial oral tradition in the early church.

“I have long suspected that the very small role allowed for oral tradition in most Gospel scholarship is, at least in part, a failure of imagination and a refusal to allow into the picture what cannot be readily manipulated by well-honed academic procedures.

David Wenham makes a powerful case for glimpsing major traces of oral sources at many points in our existing documents. Our imaginative powers need to catch up, and our academic procedures need to become more flexible!”

— John Nolland

Explorations in Paul’s Theology of Union and Participation Michael J. Thate, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Constantine R. Campbell, editors Nineteen biblical scholars and theologians in this volume explore the notions of union and participation within Pauline theology, teasing out the complex web of meaning conveyed through Paul’s theological vision of being “in Christ.”

Contributors Mary Patton Baker, T. Robert Baylor, Ben C. Blackwell, Constantine R. Campbell, Douglas A. Campbell, Julie Canlis, Stephen Chester, Matthew Croasmun, Susan Eastman, Michael J. Gorman, Joshua W. Jipp, Keith L. Johnson, Grant Macaskill, Isaac Augustine Morales, Darren Sarisky, Devin P. Singh, Michael J. Thate, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Ashish Varma.

Trinity College, Bristol

“The role of oral tradition as the key component behind the formation of the Gospels, even where literary dependence exists, is making a comeback in Gospel scholarship. It hasn’t yet replaced the reigning paradigms of redaction and literary criticism, but if it does, David Wenham’s works over the years will have had a lot to do with it. This short, straightforward little book masks years of research and a breadth of learning. . . . A delight to read and recommend.”

— Craig L. Blomberg Denver Seminary

Craig R. Koester is the Asher O. and Carrie Nasby Professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota. His other books include The Word of Life: A Theology of John’s Gospel, and he has also written a major commentary and widely used educational materials on Revelation.

David Wenham is a well-known British theologian who has specialized in Christian origins during his teaching career at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and Trinity College, Bristol, among other places.

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Michael J. Thate is Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Institute for Ancient Judaism and Hellenistic Religion at the University of Tübingen.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer is research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Constantine R. Campbell is professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

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The Making of Christian Morality

Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom

Reading Paul in Ancient and Modern Contexts

James P. Ware

David G. Horrell

This accessible text by James P. Ware provides both a concise guide to Paul’s theology and a general introduction to the key issues and debates in the contemporary study of Paul.

Examining Paul’s message in the context of the ancient world, Ware identifies what would have struck Paul’s original audience as startling or unique. By comparing Paul’s teaching to the other religions and philosophies of that day, Ware presents a fresh perspective on Paul’s theology, revealing four pillars of his thought: creation, incarnation, covenant, and kingdom. After examining each of these dimensions of Paul’s gospel, Ware explores the historical role of Paul within Christian origins and the astounding evidence embedded in his letters regarding the beginnings of Christianity and the eyewitness origins of the gospels.

Ware’s big-picture guide to Paul’s theology reflects a broader, more global cultural awareness than other Paul books. Clergy, students, and other readers will find his work to distinctively illumine and enliven the study, preaching, and teaching of all the Pauline letters.

“A beautifully written study of Paul’s place in early Christianity and a crisp, clear introduction to his thought. It engages the latest scholarship on the apostle without resorting to tedious summaries of what everyone else is saying and, at the same time, supports its own more traditional understanding of Paul with arguments that are fresh and persuasive. . . . Clear, evenhanded, and engaging at every turn.”

Foreword by John M. G. Barclay This book concentrates on ethical issues in the letters of Paul. David Horrell focuses on life in community and the ecological implications of Paul’s thought, moving from the concrete social circumstances in which the earliest Christian communities gathered to the appropriation of Paul’s writings in relation to modern ethical challenges. Often questioning established consensus positions, Horrell opens up new perspectives and engages with ongoing debates both in Pauline studies and in contemporary ethics.

After covering historical questions about the setting of the Pauline communities, The Making of Christian Morality analyzes Pauline ethics through a detailed study of particular passages. In the third and final section Horrell brings Pauline thought to bear on contemporary issues and challenges, using the environmental crisis as a case study to demonstrate how Paul’s ethics can be appropriated fruitfully in a world so different from Paul’s own.

“One of the most knowledgeable and astute New Testament scholars working in the field today, David Horrell is deeply committed to New Testament work that engages the challenges of the contemporary world, especially issues of ecology and environmental concern. This learned yet highly accessible book will be of interest to a range of readers, including students and senior scholars alike.”

— Frank Thielman

— Margaret Y. MacDonald

Beeson Divinity School

Saint Mary’s University

James P. Ware is professor of religion at the University of Evansville and the author of Synopsis of the Pauline Letters in Greek and English and Paul and the Mission of the Church: Philippians in Ancient Jewish Context.

David G. Horrell is professor of New Testament studies at the University of Exeter. His many other books include An Introduction to the Study of Paul and Solidarity and Difference: A Contemporary Reading of Paul’s Ethics.

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The New International Commentary on the New Testament Joel B. Green, series editor

The Letter to the Romans

The Letter to the Galatians

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David A. deSilva

Douglas J. Moo For more than twenty years Douglas Moo’s NICNT volume on Romans has been providing pastors, students, and scholars with profound insight into Paul’s most famous letter. In this thorough revision of his commentary, Moo deals with issues that have come into prominence since the first edition (1996), incorporating the latest research and rewriting the text throughout for better comprehension.

“All the virtues of Doug Moo’s work in the first edition of his Romans commentary are retained in the updated second edition. The commentary displays careful and rigorous exegesis, reflecting the mature judgment of a seasoned scholar who has considered the meaning of Romans for many years. At the same time, the theology of Paul’s greatest letter is explained clearly and brilliantly. . . . Moo’s first edition of Romans is the best commentary on Romans available, and the only volume that surpasses it is his second.”

— Thomas R. Schreiner Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“The passing of two decades has by no means rendered the careful exegesis of Moo’s 1996 commentary out of date. Still, this second edition allows him to interact with the most recent Pauline scholarship. To this scholarship it serves as a reliable guide—at the same time as it remains, and will continue to remain, a fine guide to the argument of Paul’s most weighty epistle.”

— Stephen Westerholm McMaster University

Douglas J. Moo is Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College Graduate School. His other books include commentaries on Galatians, Colossians, and James.

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In this replacement NICNT volume on the letter to the Galatians, David deSilva provides a coherent account of Galatians as a piece of strategically crafted communication that addresses both the immediate pastoral challenges facing Paul’s converts in Galatia and the underlying questions that gave rise to them.

Paying careful attention to the history, philology, and theology of the letter and interacting with a wealth of secondary literature on both Galatians and the rest of the Pauline corpus, deSilva’s exegetically sound commentary will be an essential resource for pastors and theological students.

“A commentary packed with value for church people and scholars alike. David deSilva is one of the world’s best at bringing historical social context into fruitful dialogue with judicious interpretation of the text.”

— Peter Oakes University of Manchester

“This masterfully written study by David deSilva offers careful verse-by-verse exposition, a dozen timely and wise excursuses, thorough review of introductory questions, and balanced attention to both Hellenistic and Jewish backgrounds. . . . Laying special emphasis on the Spirit and the new era of salvation history in which Paul writes, deSilva has produced a work that will long rank among the most significant English-language Galatians commentaries.”

— Robert W. Yarbrough Covenant Theological Seminary

David A. deSilva is Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary. His many other books include An Introduction to the New Testament, Introducing the Apocrypha, and Galatians: A Handbook to the Greek Text.

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NICNT volumes published and available (all hardcover) The Gospel of Matthew R. T. France

The Letter to the Colossians Scot McKnight

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The Gospel of Mark William L. Lane

The First and Second Letters to the Thessalonians Gordon D. Fee

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The Gospel of Luke Joel B. Green 978-0-8028-2315-1 / 1020 pages / $60.00 [£47.00]

The Letters to Timothy and Titus Philip H. Towner 978-0-8028-2513-1 / 934 pages / $62.00 [£49.00]

The Gospel of John J. Ramsey Michaels 978-0-8028-2302-1 / 1132 pages / $68.00 [£53.00]

The Letter to Philemon Scot McKnight 978-0-8028-7382-8 / 159 pages / $25.00 [£20.00]

The Book of the Acts F. F. Bruce 978-0-8028-2506-6 / 565 pages / $50.00 [£39.00]

The First Epistle to the Corinthians Gordon D. Fee 978-0-8028-7136-7 / 1044 pages / $65.00 [£51.00]

The Second Epistle to the Corinthians Paul Barnett 978-0-8028-2300-7 / 692 pages / $60.00 [£47.00]

The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians F. F. Bruce

The Epistle to the Hebrews Gareth Lee Cockerill 978-0-8028-2492-9 / 792 pages / $60.00 [£47.00]

The Letter of James Scot McKnight 978-0-8028-2627-5 / 532 pages / $55.00 [£43.00]

The First Epistle of Peter Peter H. Davids 978-0-8028-2516-2 / 288 pages / $44.00 [£35.00]

The Epistles of John I. Howard Marshall

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Paul’s Letter to the Philippians Gordon D. Fee

The Book of Revelation Robert H. Mounce

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Begun in the late 1940s, the NICNT series has been widely recognized by pastors, students, and scholars alike for its attention to the text of Scripture, its currency with contemporary scholarship, and its service to the global church.

The interpretive work reflected in these commentaries is based on careful study of the Greek text, but commentary readers need not be practiced in the biblical languages in order to benefit from them. In the same way, NICNT volumes reflect serious work in technical areas—such as linguistics, textual criticism, and historical concerns—but the commentary itself focuses on understanding the text rather than navigating scholarly debates. Readers can turn to the footnotes and excursuses for more specialized interaction with the Greek text and engagement with critical issues and literature.

Under the editorship of outstanding New Testament scholars—first Ned Stonehouse (Westminster Theological Seminary), then F. F. Bruce (University of Manchester, England) and Gordon D. Fee (Regent College, Canada), and now Joel B. Green (Fuller Theological Seminary)—the NICNT series has flourished.

In order to keep the commentary fresh and contemporary, NICNT volumes are revised and replaced as needed.

Newer volumes in the NICNT account for emergent emphases in biblical studies. These include heightened attention to rhetorical features of New Testament texts, the cultural settings within which they were written, and their theological significance for God’s people.

In this way, the NICNT series endures as an accessible, authoritative guide to the biblical text.

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The Pillar New Testament Commentary

The Letters to Timothy and Titus Robert W. Yarbrough

D. A. Carson, general editor

C O M M E N T A R I E S

The apostle Paul’s Pastoral Letters—1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus— have made an enduring contribution to understanding the role of leadership in the church. With a spirited devotion to the text, Robert Yarbrough helps unlock the meaning of these short but rich letters in this commentary.

In keeping with the character of Pillar New Testament Commentary volumes, The Letters to Timothy and Titus by Yarbrough offers a straightforward reading of these texts. Their primary concerns—God, salvation, and the pastoral task—remain central to Yarbrough’s thorough and comprehensive exegesis. Engaging with the best scholarship and resources, Yarbrough shows how these letters are as relevant today as they were to the early Christians.

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“Yarbrough’s commentary matches the goal of the Pillar series. He writes with clear theological interest and directs his comments to practical, pastoral issues— as the Pastoral Letters themselves do. Those who have followed this series undoubtedly will find this work a useful addition.”

— Mark A. Seifrid Concordia Seminary

Robert W. Yarbrough is professor of New Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, coeditor of the Baker Exegetical New Testament Commentary series, and coauthor of the widely used textbook Encountering the New Testament.

978-0-8028-3733-2 / hardcover / 640 pages / $55.00 [£43.00] / September

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The Pillar New Testament Commentary D. A. Carson, general editor

PNTC volumes published and available (all hardcover) The Gospel according to Matthew Leon Morris

The Acts of the Apostles David G. Peterson

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The Gospel according to Mark James R. Edwards

Paul’s Letter to the Romans Colin G. Kruse

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The Gospel according to Luke James R. Edwards

The First Letter to the Corinthians Roy E. Ciampa and Brian S. Rosner

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The Gospel according to John D. A. Carson

The Second Letter to the Corinthians Mark A. Seifrid

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The Letter to the Philippians G. Walter Hansen 978-0-8028-3737-0 / 396 pages / $44.00 [£35.00]

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While Today’s New International Version is generally the translation of choice for the English text, Pillar authors base their exposition on the Greek New Testament. They are deeply committed to a fresh wrestling with the biblical text, using every means at their disposal to “loosen the Bible from its pages” to help readers understand what the text says and how to apply it to life today.

The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon Douglas J. Moo 978-0-8028-3727-1 / 487 pages / $48.00 [£38.00]

The Letters to the Thessalonians Gene L. Green 978-0-8028-3727-1 / 440 pages / $47.00 [£37.00]

The Letter of James Douglas J. Moo 978-0-8028-3730-1 / 287 pages / $36.00 [£28.00]

The Letters of 2 Peter and Jude Peter H. Davids 978-0-8028-3726-4 / 380 pages / $44.00 [£35.00]

The Letters of John Colin G. Kruse 978-0-8028-3728-8 / 277 pages / $36.00 [£28.00]

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The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary

C O M M E N T A R I E S

J. Gordon McConville and Craig Bartholomew, series editors

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Seeking to bridge the existing gap between biblical studies and systematic theology, this distinctive series offers section-by-section exegesis of the Old Testament texts in close conversation with theological concerns. Written by respected scholars, the THOTC volumes aim to help pastors, teachers, and students engage in deliberately theological interpretation of Scripture.

Habakkuk

Other THOTC volumes (all paperback) Genesis James McKeown

Heath A. Thomas The book of Habakkuk has much to teach us about suffering and complaint, faith and fear, and the fidelity of God in times of trouble; it generates reflection on prayer, peace, violence, and faithfulness. In this volume—one of the few commentaries examining Habakkuk by itself—Heath Thomas explores this overlooked Old Testament prophet in order to hear God’s word for us today.

“Heath Thomas’s volume on the small prophetic tractate of Habakkuk represents theological interpretation at its best. He offers a fair and balanced reading throughout, judiciously weighing the options available and arriving at sound conclusions. But the feature that commends this work above most is its theological gravitas. It assumes that the goal of exegesis is theological conviction that translates into life.”

— Daniel Block Wheaton College

“A thoroughly researched commentary on the prophet Habakkuk. In addition to paying careful attention to the book’s Hebrew and poetry within its historical context, Thomas considers Habakkuk’s theology in conversation with biblical theology, systematic theology, and church history. This volume promises to be of great benefit to all readers.”

— Paul R. Raabe Concordia Seminary

“Including wonderful, short treatises on various theological subjects, Thomas’s commentary shows that Habakkuk inhabited the depths of lament and the high places of spiritual communion. Thomas also shows why that spiritual profile matters, then and now. This engaging treatment of Habakkuk is exemplary biblical theology at work.”

— J. Andrew Dearman Fuller Theological Seminary

Heath A. Thomas is dean of the College of Theology and Ministry and professor of Old Testament at Oklahoma Baptist University.

He has written several books on the Old Testament, including his other work on Habakkuk, Faith amid the Ruins.

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978-0-8028-2705-0 / 408 pages $28.00 [£22.00]

Joshua J. Gordon McConville and Stephen N. Williams 978-0-8028-2702-9 / 272 pages $25.00 [£20.00]

Ruth James McKeown 978-0-8028-6385-0 / 162 pages $22.00 [£17.00]

Ezra and Nehemiah David J. Shepherd and Christopher J. H. Wright 978-0-8028-6432-1 / 253 pages $28.00 [£22.00]

Job Lindsay Wilson 978-0-8028-2708-1 / 432 pages $28.00 [£22.00]

Psalms Geoffrey W. Grogan 978-0-8028-2706-7 / 502 pages $28.00 [£22.00]

Ecclesiastes Peter Enns 978-0-8028-6649-3 / 252 pages $25.00 [£20.00]

Proverbs Ernest C. Lucas 978-0-8028-2710-4 / 421 pages $28.00 [£22.00]

Lamentations Robin Parry 978-0-8028-2714-2 / 272 pages $25.00 [£20.00]

Hosea Bo H. Lim and Daniel Castelo 978-0-8028-2700-5 / 272 pages $25.00 [£20.00]

Micah Stephen G. Dempster

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The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary Joel B. Green, general editor

Seeking to bridge the existing gap between biblical studies and systematic theology, this distinctive series offers exegesis of the New Testament texts in close conversation with theological concerns. Written by respected scholars, the THNTC volumes aim to help pastors, teachers, and students engage in deliberately theological interpretation of Scripture.

F. Scott Spencer’s volume on Luke forthcoming (April 2019)

Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts

Other THNTC volumes (all paperback)

Biblical scholar Jeannine Brown and theologian Kyle Roberts here collaborate to illumine the Gospel of Matthew. Including an original translation of the text along with sectionby-section commentary, the volume features chapters on “thinking theologically with Matthew” about such themes as kingdom, Christology, the Holy Spirit, and discipleship.

Brown and Roberts also offer constructive theological engagement with a number of contemporary viewpoints, including feminist, global, political, and ethical (post-Holocaust) perspectives.

“A wonderfully fresh view of Matthew’s Gospel, providing layers of careful reflection on Matthew’s narrative, his overall theological message, and its impact for the global church. The commentary’s structure in three sections—exegetical analysis, theological topics in Matthew, constructive theology for today—illumines the Gospel’s textured story in a user-friendly format.”

— Lynn H. Cohick Denver Seminary

“This is the single best introduction to the Gospel of Matthew of which I am aware. Attentive to both literary and historical contexts, it provides not only textual commentary on Matthew’s unfolding narrative but also theological reflection that elucidates the Gospel’s social, spiritual, pastoral, and political significance for today. Brown and Roberts write in a lucid and accessible style sure to engage and edify any teacher or student of the Bible.”

Philippians Stephen E. Fowl 978-0-8028-2551-3 / 264 pages / $26.00 [£20.00]

Colossians and Philemon Marianne Meye Thompson 978-0-8028-2715-9 / 297 pages / $26.00 [£20.00]

1 & 2 Thessalonians Andy Johnson 978-0-8028-2552-0 / 367 pages / $26.00 [£20.00]

1 & 2 Timothy and Titus Robert W. Wall 978-0-8028-2562-9 / 432 pages / $26.00 [£20.00]

1 Peter Joel B. Green

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Matthew

978-0-8028-2553-7 / 345 pages / $26.00 [£20.00]

2 Peter and Jude Ruth Anne Reese 978-0-8028-2570-4 / 244 pages / $26.00 [£20.00]

Revelation John Christopher Thomas and Frank D. Macchia 978-0-8028-2554-4 / 692 pages / $36.00 [£28.00]

— Mark Allan Powell Trinity Lutheran Seminary

Jeannine K. Brown is professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary in San Diego, a member of the NIV Committee on Bible Translation, and the author of Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics.

Kyle Roberts is professor of public theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. His other books include A Complicated Pregnancy: Whether Mary Was a Virgin and Why It Matters.

978-0-8028-2566-7 / paperback / 589 pages $38.00 [£30.00] / September

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The Eerdmans Classic Biblical Commentaries

C O M M E N T A R I E S

The EERDMANS CLASSIC BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES series collects the best and most trusted Eerdmans commentaries from years gone by in a format that will make them available to readers for years to come. Some of the ECBC volumes were originally published in major commentary series, others as freestanding books. Some were first published decades ago, others more recently. Though written over the years for various levels of readers, the Eerdmans Classic Biblical Commentaries all have this in common: pastors, scholars, and serious students of the Bible continue to read them, study them, and rely on them to help unlock the meaning and message of the Scriptures.

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Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians

John: The Gospel of Belief

The Epistle to the Romans

An Analytic Study of the Text

Leon Morris

F. W. Grosheide

Merrill C. Tenney

This classic commentary by Dutch scholar F. W. Grosheide (1881–1972) on 1 Corinthians unpacks Paul’s letter to the first-century Corinthian church and applies his teachings to our own situation with vigor and understanding. Originally published in 1953 as part of the NICNT series, the volume throughout exhibits Grosheide’s fairness to the views of others and his single-mindedness to expound fully the inspired text.

Originally published in 1948, this now-classic study by Wheaton professor Merrill Tenney (1904–1985) treats the Gospel of John as a literary unit and provides a straightforward analysis of the text according to six major periods of Christ’s life. Not a critical commentary but, rather, a well-organized guidebook complemented by helpful charts and diagrams, Tenney’s John: The Gospel of Belief in this new format will continue helping readers to better grasp the aim and major themes of John.

978-0-8028-7707-9 / paperback / 416 pages $40.00 [£31.00] / April

978-0-8028-7586-0 / paperback / 338 pages $30.00 [£24.00] / October

In this now-classic commentary, first published in 1988 in the Pillar New Testament Commentary series, noted Australian biblical scholar Leon Morris (1914–2006) unravels Romans and the complexities of faith and interpretation associated with the epistle.

“Mature, clear, and readable. . . . This commentary will be viewed as Morris’s magnum opus. It is worthy of that accolade.”

— Southwestern Journal of Theology

978-0-8028-7594-5 / paperback / 592 pages $40.00 [£31.00] / Available

Other ECBC volumes published and now available (all paperback) The Gospel of John: Introduction, Exposition, and Notes F. F. Bruce 978-0-8028-7591-4 / 437 pages / $32.00 [£25.00]

The Epistle to the Hebrews F. F. Bruce 978-0-8028-7589-1 / 448 pages / $40.00 [£31.00]

Romans: A Shorter Commentary C. E. B. Cranfield 978-0-8028-7593-8 / 406 pages / $40.00

A Commentary on the Revelation of John George Eldon Ladd 978-0-8028-7590-7 / 308 pages / $30.00 [£24.00]

The Epistle to the Romans John Murray

The Gospel according to John: A Theological Commentary Herman Ridderbos 978-0-8028-7595-2 / 735 pages / $65.00 [£51.00]

The Books of Haggai and Malachi Pieter A. Verhoef 978-0-8028-7596-9 / 390 pages / $35.00 [£27.00]

978-0-8028-7588-4 / 736 pages / $65.00 [£51.00]

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Biblical Hebrew

Introducing the Old Testament

An Introductory Grammar

Robert L. Hubbard Jr. and J. Andrew Dearman

SECON D E D ITIO N

Page H. Kelley Revised by Timothy G. Crawford The fruit of decades of classroom teaching, this carefully crafted, comprehensive grammar of Biblical Hebrew has instructed thousands of students since its original publication in 1992. The book offers easy-tounderstand explanations, numerous biblical illustrations, and a wide range of imaginative, biblically based exercises.

In this second edition Timothy Crawford has updated the text throughout while preserving the Page Kelley approach that has made Biblical Hebrew so popular over the years.

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A Handbook to Biblical Hebrew SECON D E D ITIO N

Page H. Kelley, Terry L. Burden, and Timothy G. Crawford Designed to enhance learning time both inside and outside of class, this accompanying handbook contains answer keys, footnotes, additional helps, and suggestions for further testing.

Page H. Kelley (1924–1997) was professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew for more than thirty years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

Terry L. Burden is assistant professor of comparative humanities at the University of Louisville.

Timothy G. Crawford is dean and professor of Old Testament and Hebrew in the College of Christian Studies, University of Mary HardinBaylor, Belton, Texas.

In this up-to-date, student-friendly text—the best available Old Testament introduction for university and seminary students—Robert Hubbard and Andrew Dearman bring decades of scholarly study and classroom experience to bear as they introduce readers to the context, composition, and message of the Old Testament.

“This well-written and beautifully produced volume will be of enormous help to serious Bible readers who desire to dive deeper into their most ancient Scriptures.

I commend it warmly.”

— Iain Provan Regent College

“A breath of fresh air. . . . Can proudly and uniquely take its place among the Old Testament introductions in the marketplace today.”

— Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford McAfee School of Theology

“This highly useful and highly usable volume from two gifted teachers and firstrate scholars is readable, up to date, and packed with helpful features—illustrations, charts, reading questions, programmatic texts, a glossary, and much more.”

— Brent A. Strawn Emory University

“A wise guidebook from two scholars with a balanced critical and confessional perspective who have devoted their lives to orienting students to the world, text, and relevance of the Old Testament.”

— Mark J. Boda McMaster Divinity College

Robert L. Hubbard Jr. is professor emeritus of biblical literature at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, general editor of the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series, and author of the award-winning NICOT volume on Ruth.

J. Andrew Dearman is professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, associate dean at Fuller’s regional campus in Houston, Texas, and author of the NICOT volume on Hosea.

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Gospel Witness

Evangelism in Word and Deed David M. Gustafson

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Foreword by Robert E. Coleman

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Verbally sharing the gospel is only part of evangelism, asserts author David Gustafson. We must also live out the good news, both as individuals and as communities. In this book Gustafson expertly lays out the foundations of and approaches to evangelism that are crucial for the church today.

In light of our increasingly post-Christian Western contexts, Gustafson offers a mission-oriented ecclesiology that moves from missional theory to practices of missional engagement. Introducing “God’s human drama” as a way to explain the gospel within God’s redemptive story, he outlines specific ways for pastors and church leaders to shape a “gospeling” culture within their congregations.

Coming from many years of teaching evangelism, Gustafson’s biblical, theological, historical, cultural, and practical approach will make this book an ideal text for evangelical pastors, professors, students, and Christian leaders.

Contents Preface 1. Introduction to Gospel Witness 2. God’s Mission and Evangelism 3. Gospel Clarity 4. Always Ready 5. Engaging Relationships 6. Witness in Word and Deed 7. Conversion to Christ-Follower 8. Gospel Praxis in a Pluralistic Society 9. Witness through Community 10. Baptism and Discipleship 11. Shaping a Gospel-Sharing Church 12. Sending Disciples on Mission Epilogue: Faithful Presence and Urgency Appendix God’s Human Drama Illustrated Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Scripture References

David M. Gustafson is chair of the mission and evangelism department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He previously served for twenty-five years as a ministry leader with Cru and as a pastor of evangelism and discipleship.

978-0-8028-7680-5 / paperback / 304 pages / $32.00 [£25.00] / February

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Christian Dogmatics

Moral Vision

An Introduction

Seeing the World with Love and Justice

Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink

David Matzko McCarthy and James M. Donohue, CR

A fresh, inviting text on the content of Christian faith in our contemporary context, this one-volume systematic theology offers a splendid, orthodox explication of the Christian faith for students, teachers, pastors, and serious lay readers alike. Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink not only cover all the traditional themes—God, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, Scripture, and so on—but also relate those classic themes to such contemporary developments as Pentecostalism, postmodernism, and evolutionary theory.

“This fine work was widely praised by Dutch readers when it first appeared in the Netherlands. Now all of us English speakers can see what the enthusiasm was all about!”

— Richard J. Mouw Fuller Theological Seminary

“Deeply informed by biblical studies as well as the history of doctrine, van der Kooi and van den Brink engage a wide range of conversation partners and offer a crucial perspective for ecumenical conversation.”

— Michael S. Horton

Foreword by William C. Mattison III In this new textbook two Catholic ethicists with extensive teaching experience present a moral theology based on vision. David Matzko McCarthy and James M. Donohue draw widely from the Western philosophical tradition while integrating biblical and theological themes in order to explore such fundamental questions as What is good?

The fourteen chapters in Moral Vision are short and thematic. Substantive study questions engage with primary texts and get students to apply theory to everyday life and common human experiences. The book is accessibly written and flexible enough to fit into any undergraduate or seminary course on ethics.

“Moral theologians often struggle to find books for our classrooms. Some are too catechetical and therefore not sufficiently critical. Others sell out to secular culture and have little to no theological grounding. Still others have an undue focus on boundary or extreme cases or questions. Moral Vision avoids each of these pitfalls.”

— Charles C. Camosy

Westminster Seminary California

Fordham University

“One of the best and most helpful one-volume summaries of Christian thought published in the last several decades. Accessible, clear, inspiring, informative, and very readable, this work should be in every pastor’s library.”

— Charles Van Engen

“This book invites us to see two master teachers at work—and it is beautiful to behold! They write in direct but thought-provoking language that leads step-bystep through philosophical concepts, theological content, and issues related to moral vision.”

— Jana M. Bennett

Latin American Ministries, Inc.

Cornelis van der Kooi is professor of systematic theology and director of the Herman Bavinck Center for Reformed and Evangelical Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Gijsbert van den Brink holds the University Research Chair in Theology and Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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David Matzko McCarthy is professor of theology and associate provost at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland.

James M. Donohue, CR, is professor of theology, chair of the theology department, and director of pastoral ministry education at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland.

978-0-8028-7487-0 / paperback / 207 pages / $20.00 [£16.00] / November

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Four Ministries, One Jesus

Preaching Romans

Exploring Your Vocation with the Four Gospels

Four Perspectives

Richard A. Burridge

Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica, editors

Richard Burridge’s earlier Four Gospels, One Jesus? has long been a popular introduction to the New Testament gospels. In this new book Burridge looks specifically at pastoral ministry through the lens of each gospel. The book’s four major parts are “MATTHEW—Teaching Good News,” “LUKE—Pastoral Care,” “MARK—Suffering the Way of the Cross,” and “JOHN—Praying the Divine Life.”

Combining the skills of a leading biblical scholar with the wisdom derived from years of pastoral experience, Burridge invites readers to consider such questions as how to extend pastoral care to people both outside and inside Christian community, how to take care of oneself and one’s family, and how to stay attuned to the Spirit by cultivating a fresh and vigorous life of prayer.

Full of practical advice on developing and maintaining the skills needed for ministry today, Four Ministries, One Jesus will be a vital resource for anyone called to Christian ministry.

Pauline scholarship is a minefield of differing schools of thought.

Those who teach or preach on Paul can quickly get lost in the weeds of the various perspectives. How, then, can pastors today best preach Paul’s message?

Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica have assembled this stellar onestop guide exploring four major interpretive perspectives on the apostle Paul: Reformational, New, Apocalyptic, and Participationist. First elucidated by a scholarly essay, each perspective is then illuminated by three sermons expositing various passages from Paul’s magisterial letter to the Romans.

Coming from such leading figures as Richard Hays, James Dunn, Fleming Rutledge, and Tom Schreiner, these essays and sermons splendidly demonstrate how each perspective on Paul yields valuable insights for preaching on Romans.

“This is Richard Burridge at his best. Combining practical wisdom, deep spirituality, and inspiring scholarship, this book is the perfect companion for those exploring or approaching ordination.”

— Justin Welby

Contributors

Archbishop of Canterbury

“Profound, packed with treasure and wisdom, yet communicated with a rare clarity and simplicity. Burridge is undoubtedly one of our foremost New Testament scholars, and this book will be of inestimable value to all those seeking to understand the complexity and diversity of ministry today.”

— Martyn Percy Christ Church, Oxford

Richard A. Burridge is dean of King’s College London, where he is also professor of biblical interpretation and director of New Testament studies. Winner of the 2013 Ratzinger Prize, he is the first non-Catholic ever to receive that prestigious award.

978-0-8028-7673-7 / paperback / 240 pages / $24.00 [£19.00] / January

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Michael F. Bird Douglas A. Campbell James D. G. Dunn Timothy G. Gombis Michael J. Gorman Richard B. Hays

Suzanne Watts Henderson Tara Beth Leach Scot McKnight Jason Micheli Joseph B. Modica

Fleming Rutledge Thomas R. Schreiner Carl R. Trueman Stephen Westerholm William H. Willimon

Scot McKnight is the Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, Lisle, Illinois.

Joseph B. Modica is university chaplain and associate professor of biblical studies at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania.

978-0-8028-7545-7 / paperback / 160 pages / $20.00 [£16.00] / February

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Addiction and Pastoral Care

Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places

Sonia E. Waters

Michael Mather

Foreword by John Swinton

Foreword by Fr. Gregory Boyle This is the compelling story of how one church found abundance in a community of material poverty. Viewing people—not programs, finances, or service models—as their most valuable resource moved members of Mike Mather’s church beyond their own walls and out into the streets, where they discovered folks rich in strength, talents, determination, and love.

“What does it look like to live as if the gospel were true? This animating question has inspired and driven the remarkable ministries of the two urban congregations that Mike Mather has served during his three decades of pastoral ministry. He tells powerful, life-changing stories about seeing abundance where no one expects it and finding treasures in people and neighborhoods that most of us typically dismiss out of hand. Having Nothing, Possessing Everything is powerful and true at every level.”

— Craig Dykstra Duke Divinity School

“White Christians across the US owe Michael Mather a debt of gratitude. He has opened up his life and story and offered an opportunity to see what has been hidden—through his eyes. Walk with him on this journey of transformation. It will be worth it.”

— Lisa Sharon Harper author of The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

“How would the story of America be different if the first Christians to come to this land had assumed that God was already present among its peoples? It’s hard to imagine. But reading the story Mike has to tell in this book helps to stir our imagination that we might learn, one community at a time, to become the nation we’ve never yet been.”

— Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove author of Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion

Michael Mather is pastor of Broadway United Methodist Church in Indianapolis. He is also on the faculty of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. As a preacher-consultant-storyteller, he speaks all over the country about urban ministry and community development.

978-0-8028-7483-2 / paperback / 160 pages / $17.99 [£14.00] / October

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Substance addictions present a unique set of challenges for pastoral care. In this book Sonia Waters weaves together personal stories, research, and theological reflection to offer helpful tools for ministers, counselors, chaplains, and anyone else called to care pastorally for those struggling with addiction.

Waters uses the story of the Gerasene demoniac in Mark’s Gospel to reframe addiction as a “soul-sickness” that arises from a legion of individual and social vulnerabilities. She includes pastoral reflections on oppression, the War on Drugs, trauma, guilt, discipleship, and identity. The final chapters focus on practical-care skills that address the challenges of recovery, especially ambivalence and resistance to change.

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Having Nothing, Possessing Everything

“Simply put, this is the best book out there for any health professional or individual who wants to understand the spiritual and political complexities of addiction. In beautiful, perceptive, and honest prose, Sonia Waters captures the ‘legion’ of intersecting vulnerabilities and greatly expands our capacity to respond. Her Addiction and Pastoral Care fills a huge gap in the literature and is destined to become a classic.”

— Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Vanderbilt University

Sonia E. Waters is assistant professor of pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and an Episcopal priest. She has served as a volunteer chaplain at a local treatment center and is involved in recovery activities in the Princeton area.

978-0-8028-7568-6 / paperback / 232 pages / $25.00 [£20.00] February

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Cultivating Teen Faith

Mentoring

Insights from the Confirmation Project

Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives

Richard R. Osmer and Katherine M. Douglass, editors

Dean K. Thompson and D. Cameron Murchison, editors

Foreword by Kenda Creasy Dean

Foreword by Jill Duffield Afterword by Martin E. Marty

What are churches doing to form the faith of their young people? Many church denominations that practice infant baptism offer confirmation or an equivalent ministry when children reach adolescence and enter a new phase of spiritual growth—but all churches, regardless of tradition, wrestle with how to get young adults to join the church. What really works?

Twelve authors here draw on a three-year study of more than 3,000 US congregations across five denominations to answer this pressing question. They tell stories of excellent and innovative confirmation programs that work and that show, above all, what good discipleship with young people looks like.

“Confirmation ministry has long been taken for granted and has remained largely unchanged for decades. This volume presents the first significant cross-denominational study of confirmation, revealing the diversity of current methods and connecting the research to congregational best practices for effective faith formation.”

— Todd Buegler senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Owatonna, Minnesota executive director of ELCA Youth Ministry Network

Contributors: Joy L. Arroyo, Reginald Blount, Kenda Creasy Dean, Katherine M. Douglass, Terri Martinson Elton, Lisa Kimball, Gordon S. Mikoski, Kermit Moss, Richard Osmer, Kate Harmon Siberine, Jacob Sorenson, Kate O. Unruh.

Richard R. Osmer is the Ralph B. and Helen S. Ashenfelter Professor of Mission and Evangelism at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Katherine M. Douglass is assistant professor of Christian ministry at Seattle Pacific University, an ordained minister in the PC(USA), and director of the Confirmation Project at Princeton Seminary.

“Created and edited by two well-recognized mentors and former mentees, this book offers far-reaching analyses and reflections on the universal practice—but also virtue and art—of mentoring. From helpful rules and principles to concrete examples and illustrations, the authors provide a rich handbook on ways and aspects of mentoring. Readers will find themselves resonating with the stories and lessons learned and greatly helped on their own life journeys.”

— Patrick D. Miller Princeton Theological Seminary

“Thompson and Murchison have gathered a wonderfully diverse assortment of wise mentors to reflect on what it means to be mentored and to mentor others faithfully.”

— Michael L. Lindvall The Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City

“An amazingly rich, diverse collection of perspectives on the skills and gifts of both being a mentor and receiving that kind of guidance.”

— Shannon Johnson Kershner Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago

Contributors: David L. Bartlett, Walter Brueggemann, Katie G. Cannon, Thomas W. Currie, Cristian De La Rosa, Jill Duffield, Elizabeth HinsonHasty, Luke Timothy Johnson, Kwok Pui-lan, Thomas G. Long, Melva Lowry, Martin E. Marty, Rebekah Miles, D. Cameron Murchison, Camille Cook Murray, Rodger Nishioka, Douglas Ottati, Alton B. Pollard III, Cynthia L. Rigby, Dean K. Thompson, Theodore J. Wardlaw.

Dean K. Thompson is president emeritus and professor of ministry emeritus at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

D. Cameron Murchison is dean of faculty emeritus and professor of ministry emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary.

978-0-8028-7660-7 / paperback / 208 pages / $22.00 [£17.00] / October 978-0-8028-7499-3 / paperback / 255 pages / $30.00 [£24.00] / Available

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Knowing Our Faith

A Guide for Believers, Seekers, and Christian Communities Justo L. González

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“I do not hope to convince you so that you will believe,” says Justo González to open this brief book on the basics of Christianity. “That is to be left to the Holy Spirit. I write to you because you share the faith by which I live. I write so that you may share my joy in seeking to understand better this truth that our hearts believe and love.”

In Knowing Our Faith González introduces the Christian faith in direct, contemporary language that does not assume prior knowledge.

While recognizing the existence of various denominations and theological positions, González focuses on the core faith of the Christian church through the centuries. Covering all the key topics—revelation, God, Jesus Christ, the Spirit, the church, Christian hope, and more— Knowing Our Faith will help readers understand the Christian faith better—and, above all, live it better.

Contents

M I N I S T R Y

Preface An Open Letter to the Reader Introduction: Understanding the Faith 1. Revelation 2. The Triune Creator God 3. Humankind 4. The New Creation in Jesus Christ 5. The Spirit of Holiness 6. The Church: A Community of the Holy Spirit 7. Worship in the Church 8. Baptism and Communion 9. Christian Hope 10. Christian Life

Justo L. González is a retired United Methodist minister and professor of historical theology. His more than one hundred books, which have been published in ten languages, include The Story Luke Tells: Luke’s Unique Witness to the Gospel and A Brief History of Sunday: From the New Testament to the New Creation.

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Being Human

Human Rites

Bodies, Minds, Persons

The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments

Rowan Williams

Dru Johnson

What is consciousness? Is the mind a machine? What makes each of us a person? How do our bodies relate to our minds?

In this deeply engaging exploration of what it means to be human, Rowan Williams addresses such questions with lucid meditations that draw on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and literature. He then probes the relation of faith to human flourishing and shows how a traditional Christian practice—namely, silence—can help us realize our fullest human potential.

“Rowan Williams is one of today’s most brilliant and profound thinkers. His Being Human is a rich and thought-provoking meditation on the themes of consciousness, language, relationship, speech, silence, and what it is to be a person.

A marvelous and moving work—philosophical theology at its very best.”

— Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks author of Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence

“Williams never disappoints: his reflections on such important topics as the nature of consciousness, how we view time, and the wisdom of silence make vital reading.”

— Iain McGilchrist author of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Rowan Williams served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012 and is now Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. His many other books include Being Christian, Being Disciples, and Why Study the Past? (see page 15).

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Foreword by David Dark What are we doing when we gather around the sacraments—or when we make the same breakfast every morning? Embodying rituals, says Dru Johnson. And until we understand what we’re doing and why, we won’t know how these rituals work, what they mean, or how we might adapt them.

In Human Rites Johnson considers the concept of ritual as seen in Scripture and its role in shaping our thinking. He colorfully illustrates both the mundane and the sacred rituals that penetrate all of life, offering not only a helpful introduction to rituals but also a framework for understanding them. As he unpacks how rituals pervade every area of our lives, Johnson suggests biblical ways to focus our use of rituals, habits, and sacraments so that we can see the world more truly through them.

“Whether it is baptism or barbeque, Jewish passover or a church potluck, Johnson shows you how extraordinary our ordinary feats of repetition turn out to be.”

— Michael F. Bird Ridley College, Melbourne

“Dru Johnson’s Human Rites helps us discern the difference between rites that are healthy and life-giving and those that are not, challenging us to lean in to the former while forsaking the latter. As a constant work in process myself, I commend to you this helpful volume.”

— Scott Sauls pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee

Dru Johnson is an associate professor of biblical and theological studies at The King’s College in New York City. Before that, he was a high-school dropout, skinhead, punk rock drummer, combat veteran, IT supervisor, and pastor—all things that he hopes none of his children ever become.

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C H R I S T I A N

A Life That Is Good

Why the Bible Might Not Be the Book You Think It Is

The Message of Proverbs in a World Wanting Wisdom

Anne Robertson

Glenn Pemberton

Foreword by Will Willimon

Foreword by Tremper Longman III

When Anne Robertson asked people on the street what came to mind when they heard the word Bible, she was met with a flood of mixed responses, including “wisdom,” “truth,” and “love”—but also such words as “myth,” “lies,” “bigotry,” and “poison.”

What she realized was that we all read the Bible through filtered lenses, according to our varied expectations of what the Bible is or should be. But, as Robertson shows here, the Bible as a whole is primarily God’s story—a story of relationship, community, and love. Her New Vision for an Old Story gives readers keen new lenses to see beyond the printed page to the God who encounters us in dynamic relationship and transforms our lives.

Somewhere out there is the “good life,” and we’re all scrambling to get it. Glenn Pemberton maintains in this book that we find the so-called good life not in good things but in living well—and the biblical book of Proverbs teaches us how to live such a life.

Though based on solid biblical scholarship, A Life That Is Good is not a textbook, commentary, or comprehensive study. It is instead a readable, practical guide to the wisdom found in the ancient book of Proverbs—wisdom on everyday living, speech, relationships, justice, money, and much more.

Pastors and church groups in particular will love and benefit from this relevant guide regarding the message of Proverbs for today’s world.

“Anne Robertson has written an extraordinary book about the Bible—clear, compelling, fair-minded, funny, and dismissive of no one. She deftly illuminates its transformative capacity—how it speaks deeply to our hopes and fears. I heartily recommend this book to both Bible lovers and skeptics.”

— Debbie Blue

“Glenn Pemberton has invested his working life pondering the teaching of Proverbs.

His study of ‘the good life’ is easily accessible, grounded in close textual reading, and readily contemporary, especially with reference to speech and money. Pemberton invites his readers to a good life that is radically alternative to every fake offer among us.”

— Walter Brueggemann

author of Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to the Birds of the Bible

Columbia Theological Seminary

“I’m excited about Anne Robertson’s New Vision for an Old Story. . . . The Bible may not be the book you have been led to believe it is. Rather than law, abstract principles, or dogmatic assertions, the Bible is a long, wonderful, multifaceted story. . . . Anne’s hope is that you will read yourself into the story that is Scripture, and thereby find yourself looking at the world, yourself, and God in a whole new, life-giving way.”

— Will Willimon (from foreword)

“Like the book of Proverbs itself, Pemberton’s Life That Is Good is clear, profound, and practical. By virtue of its depth and clarity, this book will be equally useful for individual students of Scripture, small groups, and seminary and college courses in religion.”

— Alyce M. McKenzie

Anne Robertson is a United Methodist Church minister and executive director of the historic Massachusetts Bible Society. She is also the author of God with Skin On and the popular curriculum Exploring the Bible: The Dickinson Series.

P R A C T I C E

New Vision for an Old Story

Perkins School of Theology

Glenn Pemberton is a minister-turned-professor-turned-writer who most recently taught Old Testament studies at Abilene Christian University. His other books include Hurting with God: Learning to Lament with the Psalms and After Lament: Psalms for Learning to Trust Again.

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The Practice of Finding

Walk Humbly

How Gratitude Leads the Way to Enough

Encouragements for Living, Working, and Being

Holly W. Whitcomb

Samuel Wells

Foreword by Wayne Muller Seeking is in vogue these days. Many of us are continually, even obsessively striving and seeking—for something or other. But are we ever satisfied? What is enough?

In this book Holly Whitcomb presents the spiritual practice of finding as the antidote to chronic seeking, as the doorway to a grateful awareness of having received enough. Whitcomb exuberantly celebrates learning to savor beauty and relationships even as she also explores the gifts of vulnerability and suffering. She reflects on wisdom distilled by the “finders”—poets, playwrights, psychologists, and theologians— and derived from her own experience.

When we engage in finding, says Whitcomb, we recognize with humility and wonder that the universe contains possibilities beyond our power to imagine. The Practice of Finding is an inspiring guide to that journey of discovery.

Holly W. Whitcomb, a graduate of Yale Divinity School, is a trained spiritual director and the author of four previous books, including Seven Spiritual Gifts of Waiting. A United Church of Christ minister who serves as the director of Kettlewood Retreats, she frequently speaks at churches, retreat houses, and conference centers around the country.

Max Ehrmann’s prose poem “Desiderata,” with its direct instructions— “go placidly,” “enjoy your achievements,” and others— has inspired millions of readers.

In the spirit of Ehrmann’s “Desiderata,” world-renowned ethicist, theologian, and preacher Samuel Wells offers eight encouragements to readers in Walk Humbly, his own more extended prose poem. Each simple, direct exhortation—be humble, be grateful, be your own size, be gentle, be a person of praise, be faithful, be one body, be a blessing—is accompanied by thoughtprovoking, insightful comments.

Drawing on startlingly perceptive observations of contemporary life and reflecting a deep knowledge of philosophical and religious wisdom, Wells’s Walk Humbly will inspire readers to stop, reflect, and think deeply about essential existence.

Samuel Wells is vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London. His previous books include Incarnational Ministry, Incarnational Mission, Shaping the Prayers of the People (with Abigail Kocher), and Learning to Dream Again.

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Consider the Women

Rehearsing Scripture

A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible

Discovering God’s Word in Community

Debbie Blue

Anna Carter Florence

Among the mostly male-dominated narratives in Scripture, the stories of women can be game-changing. In this book Debbie Blue looks closely at Hagar (mother of Islam), Esther (Jewish heroine), and Mary (Christian matriarch)—and finds in them unexpected and inviting new ways of navigating faith and life.

As she sets out to explore these biblical characters who live and move in places and ways outside of the strict boundaries of tradition, Blue encounters many real-life characters who challenge her expectations and renew her hope—a Muslim tattoo artist, a Saudi Arabian sculptor, a rabbi in a Darth Vader costume, Aztec dancers at a feast of Guadalupe, an Islamic feminist scholar, and more.

Among other things, Blue’s exploration offers a timely, creative angle on bridging the three Abrahamic faiths—Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Readers who embark with her on the sometimes unorthodox, subversive paths of these curious and lively women will be led to envision more expansive and hopeful possibilities for faith, human connection, and love in our divided, violent world.

SCRIPTURE. We can study it carefully. We can listen to sermons on it and read what the experts say about it. But in the end, says Anna Carter Florence, Scripture needs to be rehearsed and encountered—and we can do that best in community with others. In this book Florence offers concrete, practical tools for reading and rehearsing Scripture in groups.

Suitable for new and seasoned Bible readers alike, Florence’s Rehearsing Scripture invites solitary readers to become community readers as well— to gather around a shared text and encounter God anew together.

Debbie Blue is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and one of the founding pastors of House of Mercy in St. Paul, Minnesota (once named “the Best Church for Non-Churchgoers”). Among her other books is the award-winning Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible.

“This book is a gorgeous invitation to experience the Bible as a living thing. Anna Carter Florence nudges the reader, saying ‘Can you feel the breath of it on your skin?

Can you see how it moves? Can you hear what it’s saying in your own ear? Can you taste both the bitter and the sweet?’ She knows that if we do this, Scripture will always, always hand over the goods. I’m so grateful for her work, her love of the Bible, and her insistence that in it we find truth.”

— Nadia Bolz-Weber author of Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

“In this book Anna Carter Florence goes on a wild rumpus invigorating God’s people to be a repertory church searching for something true. Treating Scripture as a fridge full of promise rather than a ready-made meal waiting to be microwaved, she provides a recipe to enliven Scripture reading and performance in our lives. Her Rehearsing Scripture will renew your practice and awaken your imagination.”

— Samuel Wells

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Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia, and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Her other books include Preaching as Testimony.

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Religious Liberty

Emory University Studies in Law and Religion

Douglas Laycock

John Witte Jr., series editor

N O T A B L E

One of the most respected and influential scholars of religious liberty in our time, Douglas Laycock has argued many crucial religious liberty cases in the United States Supreme Court. His noteworthy scholarly and popular writings are being collected in five comprehensive volumes under the title Religious Liberty.

Volume 3: Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, Same-Sex Marriage Legislation, and the Culture Wars

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This third volume presents a documentary history of efforts to enact and implement state and federal Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, to include religious-liberty protections in same-sex marriage legislation, and to protect the rights of both sides in the culture wars. It contains articles in scholarly journals, op-eds for popular audiences, and oral and written arguments.

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This fourth volume deals with the effort to replace the Religious Freedom Restoration Act with the Religious Liberty Protection Act, an effort that failed but led to narrower legislation protecting churches from hostile zoning and protecting the religious rights of prisoners.

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Volume 5: The Free Speech and Establishment Clauses In this final volume Laycock documents the use of the Constitution’s Free Speech Clause and Establishment Clause in legal briefs, scholarly and popular articles, House testimonies, and written debates.

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The Battle for Bonhoeffer

Believe Me

Reflections on Religion in Public Life

Stephen R. Haynes

The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump

Brett Colasacco, editor

Foreword by Charles Marsh

John Fea

Foreword by Willemien Otten Introduction by W. Clark Gilpin For the past twenty years, Martin Marty and the editors of Sightings, a digital publication of the University of Chicago Divinity School’s Martin Marty Center, have published informed, accessible, and witty commentary on religion in current events. Featuring more than seventy authors—including Marty himself, Eboo Patel, and Krista Tippett—this book collects one hundred of the best essays that have appeared in Sightings.

The need for intelligent public discussion and understanding of religion today is more vital than ever. Rich food for thought awaits readers here.

“This collection of one hundred Sightings, crafted by a wide variety scholars, journalists, and pastors, is rather like the proverbial bag of potato chips. Once started, you can’t quit until you have consumed them all. A host of adjectives are needed in order to capture the richness of this volume—lively, lucid, funny, quotable, perceptive, provocative, memorable, and, very often, poignant. Many of the individual essays are worth the price of the book.”

— Grant Wacker Duke Divinity School

Brett Colasacco is the editor of Sightings: Religion in Public Life, a twice-weekly publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. He has a PhD in religion, literature, and visual culture from the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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The figure of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) has become a clay puppet in modern American politics. Secular, radical, liberal, and evangelical interpreters variously shape and mold the martyr’s legacy to suit their own pet agendas.

Stephen Haynes here offers an incisive and clarifying perspective. A recognized Bonhoeffer expert, Haynes examines populist readings of Bonhoeffer, including the touted biography

by Eric Metaxas, and he critically analyzes the November 2016 election of Donald Trump.

The book ends with an open letter from Haynes pointedly addressing Christians who love Bonhoeffer but (still) support Trump.

Bonhoeffer’s legacy matters. Haynes redeems the life and the man.

“Does it matter how Bonhoeffer is read in America?

Anyone reading Haynes’s meticulously researched book will discover that it matters a great deal. It took courage to write this book.” — Stanley Hauerwas

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“It would be enough for John Fea to marshal his considerable prowess as a historian in proving how evangelicals have been propelled by fear, nostalgia, and the pursuit of power, as he does so compellingly in this book. But he also speaks here as a theologian and an evangelical himself, eloquently pointing toward a better gospel way. This is a call to action for evangelicals to move beyond the politics of fear to become a ‘faithful presence’ in a changing world.”

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“The Battle for Bonhoeffer by Stephen Haynes is a must-read for anyone interested in the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. People who write and teach about Bonhoeffer’s life and work are often asked about reliable sources to learn of him. This book will now undoubtedly be the go-to response to that question.”

— Reggie L. Williams

— Jana Riess

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senior columnist for Religion News Service

“Clear, concise, and convincing. . . . Fea uses his training as a historian to trace a chronology of the evangelical attraction to political power . . . and offers an alternative way (relying on hope and humility) for evangelical leaders to think about their relation to power.”

McCormick Theological Seminary

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Stephen R. Haynes is professor of religious studies at Rhodes College and theologian-inresidence at Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. The coauthor of Bonhoeffer for Armchair Theologians, he has also written articles about Bonhoeffer and American culture for the Huffington Post and the Christian Century.

John Fea is professor of American history at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. His previous books include Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction, and he blogs regularly at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.

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“John Fea’s timely and sobering book shows convincingly how legitimate concerns from white evangelical Protestants about a rapidly secularizing American culture metastasized into a fear-driven brew of half-truths, fanciful nostalgia, misplaced Christian nationalism, ethical hypocrisy, and political naiveté—precisely, that is, the mix that led so many white evangelicals not only to cast their votes for Donald Trump but also to regard him as a literal godsend.”

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Sacred Signposts

The Holy No

Parenting Forward

Words, Water, and Other Acts of Resistance

Worship as a Subversive Act

How to Raise Children with Justice, Mercy, and Kindness

Benjamin J. Dueholm

Foreword by Brian D. McLaren

In our increasingly secular world, what good are the church’s sacred practices, and why do they even matter anymore? With insight, wit, and unsparing honesty, Benjamin Dueholm in this book explores the crucial place and power of Christian practices in ordinary, everyday life.

Drawing on modern-day realities and ancient roots, firsthand experience and centuries of history, pop culture and high theology, Dueholm offers a visionary account of the radical, lifeaffirming role that seven “sacred signposts” play in our post-Christian world.

“Dueholm is more than a writer of breathtakingly beautiful prose, more than a wunderkind possessed of a rare—yet never rarified—theological genius.

In Sacred Signposts he is the consummate pastor, interpreting text and context with humility and empathy.”

— Katherine Willis Pershey “With artfully composed sentences and intriguing theological insight, Benjamin Dueholm’s reflections on Christian practices will surely speak to the lifelong faithful, to Christianity’s cultured despisers, and to everyone in between. This book should earn Dueholm a wide hearing. His voice—measured, funny, and wise—is needed now more than ever.”

— Bromleigh McCleneghan Benjamin J. Dueholm is a Lutheran pastor in Wauconda, Illinois, and a thoughtful, provocative interpreter of religion, culture, and public life. His writing has appeared in the Christian Century, Aeon, Killing the Buddha, and Religion Dispatches.

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Adam Hearlson

Cindy Wang Brandt Foreword by Rachel Held Evans

In this arresting book Adam Hearlson argues that Christians can and should say a “Holy No” to oppression and injustice through the church’s worship practices. Hearlson draws widely from Christian history to uncover ways in which the church has used its traditional practices—preaching, music, sacrament, and art—to sabotage oppressive structures of the world for the sake of the gospel.

“A refreshing look at worship as political practice.

Hearlson is provocative, poetic, and prophetic.”

— Luke A. Powery “As brilliant an exploration of the act of worship as I’ve ever seen.”

— Brian D. McLaren “Voices as diverse as Olivier Messiaen, Dorothee Sölle, Nick Hornby, Abraham Heschel, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Ellison, and ‘Red’ in The Shawshank Redemption reverberate off the walls of this volume.”

— Thomas G. Long

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“In his eloquent and convincingly argued debut, Hearlson exhorts readers to reconsider Christianity’s subversive nature. . . . Hearlson’s enjoyable book of outsiders will invigorate any reader looking for a fresh take on Christianity.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review) Adam Hearlson is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ who has served various congregations and taught in seminaries and colleges; he speaks across the country about preaching, worship, and subversion.

How do we build a better world? One key way, says Cindy Wang Brandt, is by learning to raise our children with justice, mercy, and kindness.

Her Parenting Forward is a progressive Christian book with a social-justice orientation that offers a broad intercultural perspective on parenting children.

Brandt equips Christian parents to model a way of following Jesus that has an outward focus, putting priority on loving others, avoiding judgment, and helping those in need. She shows how parents must work on dismantling their own racial, cultural, gender, economic, and religious biases in order to avoid passing them on to their children. “By becoming aware of the complex ways we participate in systems of inequality or hierarchy,” she says, “we begin to resist systemic injustice, empower our children, and change our communities.”

Cindy Wang Brandt writes about faith and parenting, miracles in the ordinary, and beauty in the margins, tapping out words from the thirty-third floor of a high-rise in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she lives with her husband, two children, and a miniature Yorkie. Her blog and newsletter can be found at cindywords.com.

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Author Index [ ? indicates a new title, one appearing for the first time in any Eerdmans academic catalog]

? Allen Grounded in Heaven 5 ? Artman The Miracle Lady (lrb) 8 Berkhof Systematic Theology 4 ? Blue Consider the Women 41 Boersma Seeing God 5 ? Borgman & Clark Written to Be Heard 17 ? Brandt Parenting Forward 44 Bratt Abraham Kuyper (lrb) 9 ? Brown & Roberts Matthew (thntc) 29 ? Burridge Four Ministries, One Jesus 34

? Grosheide Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians (ecbc) 30 ? Guarino The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II 15

? Marsden Religion and American Culture 13 Marsden A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards (lrb) 9

? Gustafson Gospel Witness 32

? Marsh, Tuttle & Rhodes Can I Get a Witness? 11

? Gzella Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, Volume XVI 19

? Mather Having Nothing, Possessing Everything 35

Hart Damning Words (lrb) 9

? McCarthy & Donohue Moral Vision 33

? Hawk The Violence of the Biblical God 17 ? Haynes The Battle for Bonhoeffer 43 Healy Hauerwas (ints) 7

Schnabel Jesus in Jerusalem 20 ? Smith Pagans and Christians in the City (euslr) 13 Stuhlmacher Biblical Theology of the New Testament 20 ? Tenney John: The Gospel of Belief (ecbc) 30 Thate, Vanhoozer & Campbell “In Christ” in Paul 22 ? Thomas Habakkuk (thotc) 28

? McDowell & Kirkland Eschatology (gt) 5

Thompson & Murchison Mentoring 36

? McKnight & Modica Preaching Romans 34

van der Kooi & van den Brink Christian Dogmatics 33

Hearlson The Holy No 44

McLaughlin An Introduction to Israel’s Wisdom Traditions 18

? Horrell The Making of Christian Morality 23

Mojzes North American Churches and the Cold War 15

Hubbard & Dearman Introducing the Old Testament 31

? Cummins & Zimmermann Acts of Interpretation 16

? Moo The Letter to the Romans, 2d ed (nicnt) 24

? Johnson Human Rites 38 ? Keen Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships 16

Wenham From Good News to Gospels 22

? De La Torre Burying White Privilege 1

? Morris The Epistle to the Romans (ecbc) 30 Novick An Introduction to the Scriptures of Israel 18

? Whitcomb The Practice of Finding 40

Choi George Whitefield (lrb) 8 ? Colasacco Sightings 43 Cox The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee (lrb) 9

? deSilva The Letter to the Galatians (nicnt) 24

Kelley & Crawford Biblical Hebrew 31

Oakes A Theology of Grace in Six Controversies (ints) 7

Kelley, Burden & Crawford A Handbook to Biblical Hebrew 31

? Osmer & Douglass Cultivating Teen Faith 36

? Fea Believe Me 43

Kennedy The First American Evangelical (lrb) 9

? Pemberton A Life That Is Good 39

Florence Rehearsing Scripture 41

Kirk A Man Attested by God 21

? Powers Full Darkness 4

Gaustad, Noll & Carter A Documentary History of Religion in America, 4th ed 12

Koester Harriet Beecher Stowe (lrb) 9

Riches Ecce Homo (ints) 7

Dueholm Sacred Signposts 44 ? Dunn Jesus according to the New Testament 21

Gonzales Reimagining the Analogia Entis (ints) 7 ? González Knowing Our Faith 37 ? Gorman, Childers & Hamilton Slavery’s Long Shadow 14 Grabbe Faith and Fossils 16

Koester Revelation and the End of All Things, 2d ed 22 ? Laycock Religious Liberty, Volumes 3–5 (euslr) 42 Linebaugh God’s Two Words 4 ? Macchia Jesus the Spirit Baptizer 21

? Ware Paul’s Theology in Context 23 ? Waters Addiction and Pastoral Care 35 ? Wells Walk Humbly 40

? Williams Being Human 38 Williams Emblem of Faith Untouched (lrb) 9 ? Williams Why Study the Past? 15 ? Wolterstorff In This World of Wonders 10 ? Yarbrough The Letters to Timothy and Titus (pntc) 26

? Robertson New Vision for an Old Story 39 Rosemann Charred Root of Meaning (ints) 6 ? Rutledge Advent 2 Rutledge The Crucifixion 3 ? Rutledge Three Hours 3

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